Genèse 8

1 Dieu se souvint de Noé, de toutes les bêtes et de tous les animaux domestiques qui étaient avec lui dans l’arche, et Dieu fit passer un vent sur la terre, et les eaux baissèrent;

And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

2 les sources de l’abîme et les écluses du ciel se fermèrent, et la pluie cessa de tomber du ciel.

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

3 Les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, allant et revenant, et elles s’abaissèrent au bout de cent cinquante jours.

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

4 Au septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l’arche s’arrêta sur les montagnes d’Ararat.

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

5 Les eaux allèrent se retirant jusqu’au dixième mois; et, au dixième mois, le premier jour du mois, apparurent les sommets des montagnes.

And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

6 Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu’il avait faite à l’arche,

And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7 et lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, allant et revenant, jusqu’à ce que les eaux fussent séchées au-dessus de la terre.

And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.

8 Il lâcha ensuite la colombe d’auprès de lui, pour voir si les eaux avaient diminué de la surface de la terre.

And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.

9 Mais la colombe, n’ayant pas trouvé où poser la plante de son pied, revint vers lui dans l’arche; parce qu’il y avait encore des eaux à la surface de toute la terre. Il étendit la main et, l’ayant prise, il la fit rentrer auprès de lui dans l’arche.

And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

10 Il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha de nouveau la colombe hors de l’arche,

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from the ark.

11 et la colombe revint vers lui sur le soir, et voici, une feuille d’olivier toute fraîche était dans son bec; et Noé reconnut que les eaux ne couvraient plus la terre.

And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

12 Il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha la colombe; et elle ne revint plus vers lui.

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

13 L’an six cent un, au premier mois, le premier jour du mois, les eaux avaient séché sur la terre. Noé ôta la couverture de l’arche et regarda, et voici, la surface du sol avait séché.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

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

And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.

15 Alors Dieu parla à Noé, en disant:

And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

16 « Sors de l’arche, toi et ta femme, tes fils et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.

Come out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Toutes les bêtes de toute chair, qui sont avec toi, oiseaux, animaux domestiques, et tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre, fais-les sortir avec toi; qu’ils se répandent sur la terre, qu’ils soient féconds et multiplient sur la terre. »

And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase you and multiply upon the earth.

18 Noé sortit, lui et ses fils, sa femme et les femmes de ses fils.

And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

19 Toutes les bêtes, tous les reptiles et tous les oiseaux, tous les êtres qui se meuvent sur la terre, selon leurs espèces, sortirent de l’arche.

And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.

20 Noé construisit un autel à Yahweh et, ayant pris de tous les animaux purs et de tous les oiseaux purs, il offrit des holocaustes sur l’autel.

And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.

21 Yahweh sentit une odeur agréable, et Yahweh dit en son cœur: « Je ne maudirai plus désormais 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 être vivant, comme je l’ai fait.

And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh as I have done.

22 Désormais, tant que la terre durera, les semailles et la moisson, le froid et le chaud, l’été et l’hiver, le jour et la nuit ne cesseront point. »

All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark