Genèse 8
1 Et 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 baissèrent;
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.
2 et les fontaines de l’abîme et les écluses des cieux furent fermées, et la pluie qui tombait du ciel fut retenue.
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.
3 Et les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, allant et se retirant; et les eaux diminuèrent au bout de 150 jours.
The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
4 Et l’arche reposa sur les montagnes d’Ararat, au septième mois, au dix-septième jour du mois.
(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.
5 Et les eaux allèrent diminuant jusqu’au dixième mois; au dixième [mois], le premier [jour] du mois, les sommets des montagnes apparurent.
The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month [of that year], the tops of other mountains became visible.
6 Et il arriva, au bout de 40 jours, que Noé ouvrit la fenêtre de l’arche qu’il avait faite;
40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
7 et il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, allant et revenant jusqu’à ce que les eaux aient séché de dessus la terre.
The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
8 Et il lâcha d’avec lui la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient baissé sur la face du sol;
Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
9 mais la colombe ne trouva pas où poser la plante de son pied, et revint à lui dans l’arche, car les eaux étaient sur la face de toute la terre; et il étendit sa main, et la prit, et la fit entrer auprès de lui dans l’arche.
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.
10 Et il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha de nouveau la colombe hors de l’arche.
Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
11 Et la colombe vint à lui au temps du soir, et voici, dans son bec, une feuille d’olivier arrachée. Et Noé sut que les eaux avaient baissé sur la terre.
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.
12 Et il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha la colombe, et elle ne revint plus de nouveau vers lui.
Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 Et il arriva, l’an 601, au premier [mois], le premier [jour] du mois, que les eaux furent séchées de dessus la terre; et Noé ôta la couverture de l’arche et regarda, et voici, la face du sol avait séché.
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.
14 Et au second mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut sèche.
By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.
15 Et Dieu parla à Noé, disant:
Then God said to Noah,
16 Sors de l’arche, toi, et ta femme et tes fils et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.
“Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Fais sortir avec toi tout animal qui est avec toi, de toute chair, tant oiseaux que bétail, et tout reptile qui rampe sur la terre, et qu’ils foisonnent en la terre, et fructifient et multiplient sur la terre.
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.”
18 Et Noé sortit, et ses fils, et sa femme et les femmes de ses fils avec lui.
So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
19 Tout animal, tout reptile et tout oiseau, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, selon leurs espèces, sortirent de l’arche.
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.
20 Et Noé bâtit un autel à l’Éternel, et prit de toute bête pure et de tout oiseau pur, et offrit des holocaustes sur l’autel.
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.
21 Et l’Éternel flaira une odeur agréable; et l’Éternel dit en son cœur: Je ne maudirai plus de nouveau le sol à cause de l’homme, car l’imagination du cœur de l’homme est mauvaise dès sa jeunesse; et je ne frapperai plus de nouveau tout ce qui est vivant, comme je l’ai fait.
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.
22 Désormais, tant que seront les jours de la terre, les semailles et la moisson, et le froid et le chaud, et l’été et l’hiver, et le jour et la nuit, ne cesseront pas.
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.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
