Genèse 8
1 Dieu se souvint de Noé, 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’apaisèrent.
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 Les sources de l’abîme et les écluses des cieux furent fermées, et la pluie ne tomba plus du ciel.
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 Les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, s’en allant et s’éloignant, et les eaux diminuèrent au bout de cent cinquante jours.
The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
4 Le septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l’arche s’arrêta sur les montagnes d’Ararat.
(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 Les eaux allèrent en diminuant jusqu’au dixième mois. Le dixième mois, le premier jour du mois, apparurent les sommets des montagnes.
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 Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu’il avait faite à l’arche.
40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
7 Il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, partant et revenant, jusqu’à ce que les eaux eussent séché sur la terre.
The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
8 Il lâcha aussi la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient diminué à la surface de la terre.
Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
9 Mais la colombe ne trouva aucun lieu pour poser la plante de son pied, et elle revint à lui dans l’arche, car il y avait des eaux à la surface de toute la terre. Il avança la main, la prit, et la fit rentrer 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 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 La colombe revint à lui sur le soir; et voici, une feuille d’olivier arrachée était dans son bec. Noé connut ainsi que les eaux avaient diminué 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 Il attendit encore sept autres jours; et il lâcha la colombe. Mais elle ne revint plus à lui.
Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 L’an six cent un, le premier mois, le premier jour du mois, les eaux avaient séché sur la terre. Noé ôta la couverture de l’arche: il regarda, et voici, la surface de la terre 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 Le 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 Alors Dieu parla à Noé, en disant:
Then God said to Noah,
16 Sors de l’arche, toi et ta femme, 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 tous les animaux de toute chair qui sont avec toi, tant les oiseaux que le bétail et tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre: qu’ils se répandent sur la terre, qu’ils soient féconds 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, avec ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils.
So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
19 Tous les animaux, tous les reptiles, tous les oiseaux, 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 Noé bâtit un autel à l’Éternel; il prit de toutes les bêtes pures et de tous les oiseaux purs, et il 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 L’Éternel sentit une odeur agréable, et l’Éternel dit en son cœur: Je ne maudirai plus 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 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 Tant que la terre subsistera, les semailles et la moisson, le froid et la chaleur, l’été et l’hiver, le jour et la nuit ne cesseront point.
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
