Kejadian 8
1 Allah tidak melupakan Nuh dan segala binatang yang ada bersamanya di dalam kapal itu. Allah membuat angin bertiup, sehingga air itu mulai surut.
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.
2 Semua mata air di bawah bumi dan semua pintu air di langit ditutupnya. Hujan berhenti,
The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 dan air semakin surut. Sesudah 150 hari air tidak begitu tinggi lagi.
The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded.
4 Pada tanggal tujuh belas bulan tujuh, kapal itu kandas di sebuah puncak di pegunungan Ararat.
The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
5 Air terus surut dan pada tanggal satu bulan sepuluh, puncak-puncak gunung mulai tampak.
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.
6 Setelah empat puluh hari, Nuh membuka sebuah jendela kapal,
At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
7 dan melepaskan seekor burung gagak. Burung itu tidak kembali ke kapal melainkan terus terbang kian kemari sampai air banjir sudah surut sama sekali.
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8 Sementara itu, Nuh melepaskan seekor burung merpati untuk mengetahui apakah air itu memang telah surut.
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
9 Tetapi karena air masih menutupi seluruh muka bumi, burung merpati itu tidak menemukan tempat untuk bertengger. Maka kembalilah ia ke kapal; Nuh mengulurkan tangannya lalu membawanya masuk.
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.
10 Nuh menunggu tujuh hari lagi, lalu melepaskan lagi burung merpati itu.
He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
11 Pada petang hari burung itu kembali kepadanya membawa sehelai daun zaitun yang segar pada paruhnya. Sekarang Nuh tahu bahwa air telah surut.
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.
12 Setelah menunggu tujuh hari lagi, ia melepaskan merpati itu sekali lagi; dan kali itu burung itu tidak kembali kepadanya.
He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
13 Pada waktu Nuh berumur 601 tahun, pada tanggal satu bulan satu, air sudah surut sama sekali. Nuh membuka atap kapal itu, dan melihat ke sekelilingnya. Ia melihat bahwa permukaan tanah sudah kering.
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.
14 Pada tanggal dua puluh tujuh bulan dua, bumi sudah kering.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Lalu berkatalah Allah kepada Nuh,
God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Keluarlah dari kapal itu bersama-sama dengan istrimu, anak-anakmu dan istri-istri mereka.
“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17 Bawalah keluar semua burung dan binatang lainnya, besar maupun kecil, supaya mereka bisa berkembang biak dan menyebar ke seluruh bumi."
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.”
18 Lalu keluarlah Nuh dari kapal itu bersama-sama dengan istrinya, anak-anaknya dan istri-istri mereka.
Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
19 Semua burung dan binatang darat keluar dari kapal itu, masing-masing bersama kelompok sejenisnya.
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
20 Nuh mendirikan sebuah mezbah untuk TUHAN. Diambilnya seekor dari setiap jenis burung dan binatang lainnya yang halal, lalu dipersembahkannya sebagai kurban bakaran di atas mezbah itu.
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.
21 Bau harum kurban persembahan itu menyenangkan hati TUHAN, dan Ia berkata di dalam hati, "Aku tak akan lagi mengutuk dunia ini karena perbuatan manusia; Aku tahu bahwa sejak masa mudanya, pikiran manusia itu jahat. Aku tak akan pernah lagi membinasakan segala makhluk yang hidup seperti yang baru Kulakukan ini.
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.
22 Selama dunia ini ada, selalu akan ada masa menanam dan masa menuai, musim dingin dan musim panas, musim kemarau dan musim hujan, siang dan malam."
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
