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.
Dieu se souvint de Noé, de tous les animaux et de tout le bétail qui étaient avec lui dans l’arche; et Dieu fit passer un vent sur la terre, et les eaux s’apaisèrent.
2 And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Les sources de l’abîme et les écluses des cieux furent fermées, et la pluie ne tomba plus du ciel.
3 And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly.
Les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, s’en allant et s’éloignant, et les eaux diminuèrent au bout de cent cinquante jours.
4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ship came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Le septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l’arche s’arrêta sur les montagnes d’Ararat.
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.
Les eaux allèrent en diminuant jusqu’au dixième mois. Le dixième mois, le premier jour du mois, apparurent les sommets des montagnes.
6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu’il avait faite à l’arche.
7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, partant et revenant, jusqu’à ce que les eaux eussent séché sur la terre.
8 Then he sent forth a dove from it, to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground,
Il lâcha aussi la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient diminué à la surface de la terre.
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.
Mais la colombe ne trouva aucun lieu pour poser la plante de son pied, et elle revint à lui dans l’arche, car il y avait des eaux à la surface de toute la terre. Il avança la main, la prit, et la fit rentrer auprès de lui dans l’arche.
10 And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
Il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha de nouveau la colombe hors de l’arche.
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.
La colombe revint à lui sur le soir; et voici, une feuille d’olivier arrachée était dans son bec. Noé connut ainsi que les eaux avaient diminué sur la terre.
12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
Il attendit encore sept autres jours; et il lâcha la colombe. Mais elle ne revint plus à lui.
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.
L’an six cent un, le premier mois, le premier jour du mois, les eaux avaient séché sur la terre. Noé ôta la couverture de l’arche: il regarda, et voici, la surface de la terre avait séché.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Le second mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut sèche.
15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
Alors Dieu parla à Noé, en disant:
16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
Sors de l’arche, toi et ta femme, tes fils et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.
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."
Fais sortir avec toi tous les animaux de toute chair qui sont avec toi, tant les oiseaux que le bétail et tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre: qu’ils se répandent sur la terre, qu’ils soient féconds et multiplient sur la terre.
18 And Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
Et Noé sortit, avec ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils.
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.
Tous les animaux, tous les reptiles, tous les oiseaux, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, selon leurs espèces, sortirent de l’arche.
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.
Noé bâtit un autel à l’Éternel; il prit de toutes les bêtes pures et de tous les oiseaux purs, et il offrit des holocaustes sur l’autel.
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.
L’Éternel sentit une odeur agréable, et l’Éternel dit en son cœur: Je ne maudirai plus la terre, à cause de l’homme, parce que les pensées du cœur de l’homme sont mauvaises dès sa jeunesse; et je ne frapperai plus tout ce qui est vivant, comme je l’ai fait.
22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Tant que la terre subsistera, les semailles et la moisson, le froid et la chaleur, l’été et l’hiver, le jour et la nuit ne cesseront point.
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
