Genesis 8
1 But God (did not forget/thought) about Noah and all the wild animals and all the kinds of livestock that were with him in the boat. So one day God sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the wind caused the water [to begin] to recede.
Dieu se souvint de Noé, de tous les animaux et de tout le bétail qui étaient avec lui dans le navire; et Dieu fit passer un vent sur la terre. Les eaux s'apaisèrent.
2 God caused the water that was under the earth to stop bursting forth, and he caused the floodgates of water from the sky to close so that it stopped raining.
Les sources de l'abîme et les fenêtres du ciel s'arrêtèrent aussi, et la pluie du ciel fut retenue.
3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
Les eaux se retirèrent continuellement de la terre. Au bout de cent cinquante jours, les eaux se retirèrent.
4 (on the 17th day of the seventh month [of that year/late in March]), the boat came to rest on one of the mountains in the Ararat region.
Le navire se reposa au septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, sur les montagnes d'Ararat.
5 The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month [of that year], the tops of other mountains became visible.
Les eaux se retirèrent continuellement jusqu'au dixième mois. Au dixième mois, le premier jour du mois, les sommets des montagnes furent visibles.
6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre du navire qu'il avait construit,
7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
et il envoya un corbeau. Il allait et venait, jusqu'à ce que les eaux aient séché de la surface de la terre.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
Il envoya lui-même une colombe pour voir si les eaux avaient diminué à la surface du sol,
9 But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat, because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat.
mais la colombe ne trouva aucun endroit où poser sa patte, et elle revint vers lui dans le navire, car les eaux étaient à la surface de toute la terre. Il étendit la main, la prit, et la fit venir à lui dans la barque.
10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
Il attendit encore sept jours, et il envoya de nouveau la colombe hors du navire.
11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening and, [surprisingly], in its beak there was a leaf from an olive tree that the dove had just plucked. Then Noah knew that the water had truly receded from the surface of the ground.
La colombe revint vers lui le soir, et voici qu'elle avait dans sa bouche une feuille d'olivier fraîchement cueillie. Noé sut donc que les eaux s'étaient retirées de la terre.
12 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Il attendit encore sept jours et envoya la colombe; elle ne revint plus vers lui.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. By the first day of the first month [of the Jewish year], the water had completely drained away from the ground. Noah removed the covering on top of the ark, and he was surprised to see that the surface of the ground was drying.
La six cent unième année, le premier mois, le premier jour du mois, les eaux se tarirent de la terre. Noé enleva l'enveloppe du navire et regarda. Il vit que la surface de la terre était sèche.
14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.
Le deuxième mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre était sèche.
15 Then God said to Noah,
Dieu parla à Noé, et dit:
16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
« Sors du navire, toi, ta femme, tes fils, et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.
17 Bring out with you all the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that scurry across the ground, in order that they can spread all over the earth and become very numerous.”
Fais sortir avec toi tous les êtres vivants qui sont avec toi, de toute chair, y compris les oiseaux, le bétail, et tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre, afin qu'ils se reproduisent en abondance sur la terre, qu'ils soient féconds et qu'ils se multiplient sur la terre. »
18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
Noé sortit, avec ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils avec lui.
19 And every kind of creature, including all those that scurry across the ground, all the birds, every creature that moves on the earth, left the boat. They left the boat in groups of their own species.
Tous les animaux, tous les reptiles et tous les oiseaux, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, selon leurs familles, sortirent du navire.
20 Then Noah built a (stone altar/place for offering sacrifices) to Yahweh. Then he took some of the animals that Yahweh had said were acceptable as sacrifices and killed them. Then he burned them whole on the altar.
Noé bâtit un autel à l'Éternel; il prit de tous les animaux purs et de tous les oiseaux purs, et il offrit des holocaustes sur l'autel.
21 When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time.
Yahvé sentit l'arôme agréable. Yahvé dit en son cœur: « Je ne maudirai plus le sol à cause de l'homme, car l'imagination du cœur de l'homme est mauvaise dès sa jeunesse. Je ne frapperai plus jamais tout être vivant, comme je l'ai fait.
22 As long as the earth exists, each year there will be seasons for planting seeds and seasons for harvesting crops. Each year there will be times when it is cold and times when it is hot, summer and winter (OR, rainy season and dry season). Each day there will be daytime and nighttime.”
Tant que la terre subsistera, le temps des semences et des récoltes, le froid et la chaleur, l'été et l'hiver, le jour et la nuit ne cesseront pas. »
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
