Genesis 8

1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

١ ثُمَّ افْتَقَدَ اللهُ نُوحاً وَمَا مَعَهُ فِي الْفُلْكِ مِنْ وُحُوشٍ وبَهَائِمَ، فَأَرْسَلَ رِيحاً عَلَى الأَرْضِ فَتَقَلَّصَتِ الْمِيَاهُ

2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

٢ وَانْسَدَّتْ يَنَابِيعُ الْمَاءِ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ، وَاحْتَبَسَ الْمَطَرُ.

3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded.

٣ وَتَرَاجَعَتِ الْمِيَاهُ عَنِ الأَرْضِ تَدْرِيجِيًّا. وَبَعْدَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ يَوْماً نَقَصَتِ الْمِيَاهُ.

4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

٤ وَاسْتَقَرَّ الْفُلْكُ عَلَى جِبَالِ أَرَارَاطَ فِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ السَّابِعِ لِلطُّوفَانِ.

5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

٥ وَظَلَّتِ الْمِيَاهُ تَتَنَاقَصُ تَدْرِيجِيًّا حَتَّى الشَّهْرِ الْعَاشِرِ. وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الْعَاشِرِ بَدَتْ قِمَمُ الْجِبَالِ.

6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

٦ وَبَعْدَ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً أُخْرَى فَتَحَ نُوحٌ النَّافِذَةَ الَّتِي كَانَ قَدْ عَمِلَهَا فِي الْفُلْكِ.

7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

٧ وَأَطْلَقَ غُرَاباً، فَخَرَجَ وَظَلَّ يَحُومُ مُتَرَدِّداً إِلَى الْفُلْكِ حَتَّى جَفَّتِ الْمِيَاهُ عَنِ الأَرْضِ.

8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

٨ ثُمَّ أَطْلَقَ نُوحٌ حَمَامَةً مِنَ الْفُلْكِ لِيَرَى إِنْ كَانَتِ الْمِيَاهُ قَدْ تَقَلَّصَتْ عَنْ وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ،

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

٩ وَلَكِنَّ الْحَمَامَةَ لَمْ تَجِدْ مَوْضِعاً تَسْتَقِرُّ عَلَيْهِ رِجْلُهَا فَرَجَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْفُلْكِ، لأَنَّ الْمِيَاهَ كَانَتْ مَازَالَتْ تَغْمُرُ سَطْحَ الأَرْضِ، فَمَدَّ يَدَهُ وَأَخَذَهَا، وَأَدْخَلَهَا عِنْدَهُ إِلَى الْفُلْكِ.

10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

١٠ وَانْتَظَرَ سَبْعَةَ أَيَّامٍ أُخْرَى ثُمَّ عَادَ فَأَطْلَقَ الْحَمَامَةَ مِنَ الْفُلْكِ،

11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

١١ فَرَجَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ عِنْدَ الْمَسَاءِ تَحْمِلُ فِي مِنْقَارِهَا وَرَقَةَ زَيْتُونٍ خَضْرَاءَ، فَأَدْرَكَ نُوحٌ أَنَّ الْمِيَاهَ قَدْ تَنَاقَصَتْ عَنِ الأَرْضِ.

12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

١٢ فَمَكَثَ سَبْعَةَ أَيَّامٍ أُخْرَى ثُمَّ أَطْلَقَ الْحَمَامَةَ فَلَمْ تَرْجِعْ إِلَيْهِ هَذِهِ الْمَرَّةَ.

13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

١٣ وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ السَّنَةِ الْوَاحِدَةِ وَالسِّتِّ مِئَةٍ مِنْ عُمْرِ نُوحٍ، جَفَّتِ الْمِيَاهُ عَنِ الأَرْضِ، فَرَفَعَ نُوحٌ سَقْفَ الْفُلْكِ وَتَطَلَّعَ حَوْلَهُ، فَرَأَى أَنَّ سَطْحَ الأَرْضِ قَدْ أَخَذَ فِي الْجَفَافِ.

14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

١٤ وَلَكِنَّ الأَرْضَ لَمْ تَجِفَّ تَمَاماً إِلّا فِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعِ وَالْعِشْرِينَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الثَّانِي.

15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

١٥ وَخَاطَبَ اللهُ نُوحاً قَائِلا:

16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

١٦ «اخْرُجْ مِنَ الْفُلْكِ أَنْتَ وَامْرَأَتُكَ وَبَنُوكَ وَنِسَاءُ بَنِيكَ مَعَكَ،

17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

١٧ وَأَخْرِجْ كُلَّ مَا مَعَكَ مِنَ الْكَائِنَاتِ الْحَيَّةِ، مِنْ طُيُورٍ وَبَهَائِمَ وَكُلِّ مَا يَزْحَفُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ لِتَتَوَالَدَ وَتَتَكَاثَرَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ».

18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

١٨ وَخَرَجَ نُوحٌ وَبَنُوهُ وَامْرَأَتُهُ وَزَوْجَاتُ بَنِيهِ مَعَهُ.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

١٩ وَكَذَلِكَ خَرَجَتْ مَعَهُ كُلُّ الْحَيَوَانَاتِ، وَالزَّوَاحِفِ وَالطُّيُورِ، وَكُلُّ مَا يَدِبُّ عَلَى الأَرْضِ، كُلٌّ مِنْهَا كَجِنْسِهَا.

20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

٢٠ وَبَنَى نُوحٌ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ ثُمَّ اخْتَارَ بَعْضاً مِنْ جَمِيعِ الْبَهَائِمِ وَالطُّيُورِ الطَّاهِرَةِ وَقَرَّبَهَا مُحْرَقَاتٍ عَلَى الْمَذْبَحِ.

21 The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

٢١ فَتَقَبَّلَهَا الرَّبُّ بِرِضًى، وَقَالَ فِي نَفْسِهِ: «لَنْ أَلْعَنَ الأَرْضَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى مِنْ أَجْلِ الإِنْسَانِ، لأَنَّ أَهْوَاءَ قَلْبِ الإِنْسَانِ شِرِّيرَةٌ مُنْذُ حَدَاثَتِهِ وَلَنْ أُقْدِمَ عَلَى إِهْلاكِ كُلِّ حَيٍّ كَمَا فَعَلْتُ.

22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

٢٢ وَتَكُونُ كُلُّ أَيَّامِ الأَرْضِ مَوَاسِمَ زَرْعٍ وَحَصَادٍ وَبَرْدٍ وَحَرٍّ وَصَيْفٍ وَشِتَاءٍ وَنَهَارٍ وَلَيْلٍ، لَنْ تَبْطُلَ أَبَداً».

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark