Genesis 8
1 And God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals, and all the tame animals, and all the flying creatures, and all the crawling creatures that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to recede.
| اما خدا، نوح و حیوانات درون کشتی را فراموش نکرده بود. او بادی بر سطح آبها وزانید و سیلاب کم‌کم کاهش یافت. |
2 And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
| آبهای زیرزمینی از فوران بازایستادند و باران قطع شد. |
3 And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly.
| آب رفته‌رفته از روی زمین کم شد. پس از صد و پنجاه روز، |
4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ship came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
| در روز هفدهم از ماه هفتم، کشتی روی کوههای آرارات قرار گرفت. |
5 The waters receded continually to the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
| دو ماه و نیم بعد، در حالی که آب همچنان پائین می‌رفت، قلۀ کوهها نمایان شد. |
6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
| پس از گذشت چهل روز، نوح پنجره‌ای را که برای کشتی ساخته بود، گشود |
7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters had dried up from the earth.
| و کلاغی رها کرد. کلاغ به این سو و آن سو پرواز می‌کرد تا آن که زمین خشک شد. |
8 Then he sent forth a dove from it, to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground,
| پس از آن، کبوتری رها کرد تا ببیند آیا کبوتر می‌تواند زمین خشکی برای نشستن پیدا کند. |
9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
| اما کبوتر جایی را نیافت، زیرا هنوز آب بر سطح زمین بود. وقتی کبوتر برگشت، نوح دست خود را دراز کرد و کبوتر را گرفت و به داخل کشتی برد. |
10 And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
| نوح هفت روز دیگر صبر کرد و بار دیگر همان کبوتر را رها نمود. |
11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, look, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.
| این بار، هنگام غروب آفتاب، کبوتر در حالی که برگ زیتون تازه‌ای به منقار داشت، نزد نوح بازگشت. پس نوح فهمید که در بیشتر نقاط، آب فرو نشسته است. |
12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
| یک هفته بعد، نوح باز همان کبوتر را رها کرد، ولی این بار کبوتر باز نگشت. |
13 And it happened in the six hundred first year of Noah's life, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters had dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ship and looked out. And look, the surface of the ground was dry.
| در ششصد و یکمین سال از زندگی نوح، در اولین روز ماه اول، آب از روی زمین خشک شد. آنگاه نوح پوشش کشتی را برداشت و به بیرون نگریست و دید که سطح زمین خشک شده است. |
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
| در روز بیست و هفتم از ماه دوم، سرانجام همه جا خشک شد. |
15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
| در این هنگام خدا به نوح فرمود: |
16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
| «اینک زمان آن رسیده که همه از کشتی خارج شوید. |
17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, of flying creatures, and animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
| تمام حیوانات، پرندگان و خزندگان را رها کن تا تولید مثل کنند و بر روی زمین زیاد شوند.» |
18 And Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
| پس نوح با همسر و پسران و عروسانش از کشتی بیرون آمد. |
19 And every wild animal, and every tame animal, and every flying creature, and every creature that crawls on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
| و تمام حیوانات و خزندگان و پرندگان نیز دسته‌دسته از کشتی خارج شدند. |
20 Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean flying creature, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
| آنگاه نوح مذبحی برای خداوند ساخت و از هر حیوان و پرندهٔ حلال گوشت بر آن قربانی کرد. |
21 And God smelled the pleasing aroma, and God said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of his heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
| خداوند از این عمل نوح خشنود گردید و با خود گفت: «من بار دیگر زمین را به خاطر انسان که دلش از کودکی به طرف گناه متمایل است، لعنت نخواهم کرد و اینچنین تمام موجودات زنده را از بین نخواهم برد. |
22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
| تا زمانی که جهان باقی است، کشت و زرع، سرما و گرما، زمستان و تابستان، و روز و شب همچنان برقرار خواهد بود.» |
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
