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.

Or, Dieu se souvint de Noé, et 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'arrêtèrent.

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.

Et les sources de l'abîme et les bondes des cieux se fermèrent; et la pluie fut retenue des cieux.

3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,

Et les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre; elles allèrent se retirant; et les eaux diminuèrent au bout de 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 au septième mois, au dix-septième jour du mois, l'arche s'arrêta 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.

Et les eaux allèrent diminuant, jusqu'au dixième mois. Au dixième mois, au premier jour du mois, ap-parurent les sommets des montagnes.

6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.

Et il arriva qu'au bout de quarante jours Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu'il avait faite à l'arche.

7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.

Et il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, allant et revenant, jusqu'à ce que les eaux eussent séché de dessus la terre.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.

Puis il lâcha la colombe d'avec lui, pour voir si les eaux avaient fort diminué à la surface 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 ne trouva pas où poser la plante de son pied, et elle retourna vers lui dans l'arche; car il y avait de l'eau à la surface de toute la terre. Et Noé avança sa main, la prit, et la ramena vers lui dans l'arche.

10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.

Et il attendit encore sept autres jours, puis il lâcha de nouveau la colombe hors de l'arche.

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 la colombe revint à lui vers le soir; et voici, une feuille d'olivier fraîche était à son bec; et Noé comprit que les eaux avaient fort diminué sur 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 il attendit encore sept autres jours; puis il lâcha la colombe; mais elle ne retourna plus à 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.

Et il arriva en l'an six cent un de la vie de Noé, au premier mois, au premier jour du mois, que les eaux avaient séché sur la terre; et Noé ôta la couverture de l'arche, et regarda; et voici, la surface du sol avait séché.

14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.

Au second mois, au vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut sèche.

15 Then God said to Noah,

Alors Dieu parla à Noé, en disant:

16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.

Sors de l'arche, 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 animaux qui sont avec toi, de toute chair, tant des oiseaux que des bêtes, et de tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre; et qu'ils peuplent en abondance la terre, et qu'ils croissent et multiplient sur la terre.

18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.

Et Noé sortit, et 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 rampe sur la terre, selon leurs familles, sortirent de l'arche.

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 bâtit un autel à l'Éternel; et il prit de toute bête pure, et de tout oiseau pur, 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.

Et l'Éternel respira l'agréable odeur, et l'Éternel dit en son cœur: Je ne maudirai plus la terre, à cause de l'homme; car la nature du cœur de l'homme est mauvaise dès sa jeunesse; et je ne frapperai plus tout ce qui vit, 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 durera, les semailles et la moisson, le froid et le chaud, l'été et l'hiver, et le jour et la nuit, ne cesseront point.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark