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.
Puis, Dieu se souvint de Noé, et de toutes les bêtes fauves, et de tous les bestiaux, et de tous les oiseaux, et de tous les reptiles qui étaient avec lui dans l'arche. Il fit souffler un vent sur la terre, et l'eau céda.
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 furent fermées, ainsi que les cataractes du ciel, et la pluie du ciel cessa.
3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
L'eau qui fuyait sur la terre s'affaissa, et diminua après cent cinquante jours.
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.
Et, le vingt-septième jour de la septième lune, l'arche s'arrêta sur le mont 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.
Or, l'eau diminua jusqu'à la dixième lune, et, le premier jour de la dixième lune, les cimes des montagnes apparurent.
6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
Après quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la porte de l'arche qu'il avait faite,
7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
Et fit partir un corbeau, qui, étant sorti, ne revint plus, même après que l'eau se fut desséchée sur la terre.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
Après lui, Noé envoya une colombe pour voir si l'eau s'était retirée de la terre.
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, n'ayant point trouvé où poser ses pieds, revint auprès de lui dans l'arche, parce que l'eau était sur toute la surface de la terre. Et, ayant étendu la main, il la prit et l'introduisit auprès de lui dans l'arche.
10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
Puis, après avoir attendu sept jours encore, il fit de nouveau partir de l'arche la colombe.
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.
Et sur le soir la colombe revint près de lui, tenant en son bec un brin de branche et une feuille d'olivier. Noé reconnut alors que l'eau s'était retirée 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.
Et après avoir attendu encore sept jours, il fit de nouveau partir la colombe, qui ne revint plus auprès de 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.
Or, l'an six cent un de la vie de Noé, le premier jour de la première lune, l'eau disparut sur la terre. Et Noé ouvrit le toit de l'arche qu'il avait faite et vit que l'eau s'était retirée de la face de la terre
14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.
Et, le vingt-septième jour de la seconde lune, la terre se trouva sèche.
15 Then God said to Noah,
Et le Seigneur Dieu parla à Noé, disant:
16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
Sors de l'arche avec ta femme, et tes fils, et les femmes de tes fils, et toutes les bêtes fauves qui sont auprès de 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.”
Et toute chair, depuis les oiseaux jusqu'aux bestiaux; fais aussi sortir tout reptile se traînant à terre; et croissez et multipliez.
18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
Noé sortit donc avec sa femme, et ses fils, et les femmes de ses fils;
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.
Et toutes les bêtes fauves, et tous les bestiaux, et tout oiseau, et tout reptile se traînant à terre, selon leurs espèces, sortirent avec lui.
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.
Et Noé éleva un autel au Seigneur; puis il prit de tous les bestiaux purs, et de tous les oiseaux purs, et il en offrit sur l'autel un holocauste au Seigneur.
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.
Et le Seigneur Dieu respira un parfum délicieux. Et le Seigneur Dieu, ayant réfléchi, dit: Je ne veux plus maudire la terre à cause des œuvres des hommes, parce que l'esprit de l'homme, dès sa jeunesse, se complaît dans le mal. Je ne veux donc plus frapper toute chair vivante, 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.”
Tous les jours de la terre, les semailles et la moisson, le froid et l'ardente chaleur, l'automne et le printemps, ne se reposeront jamais plus, ni jour ni nuit.
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
