پیدایش 8

1 اما خدا، نوح و حیوانات درون کشتی را فراموش نکرده بود. او بادی بر سطح آبها وزانید و سیلاب کم‌کم کاهش یافت.

Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished.

2 آبهای زیرزمینی از فوران بازایستادند و باران قطع شد.

And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.

3 آب رفته‌رفته از روی زمین کم شد. پس از صد و پنجاه روز،

And the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty days.

4 در روز هفدهم از ماه هفتم، کشتی روی کوههای آرارات قرار گرفت.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

5 دو ماه و نیم بعد، در حالی که آب همچنان پائین می‌رفت، قلۀ کوهها نمایان شد.

Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appeared.

6 پس از گذشت چهل روز، نوح پنجره‌ای را که برای کشتی ساخته بود، گشود

And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a raven,

7 و کلاغی رها کرد. کلاغ به این سو و آن سو پرواز می‌کرد تا آن که زمین خشک شد.

which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.

8 پس از آن، کبوتری رها کرد تا ببیند آیا کبوتر می‌تواند زمین خشکی برای نشستن پیدا کند.

Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

9 اما کبوتر جایی را نیافت، زیرا هنوز آب بر سطح زمین بود. وقتی کبوتر برگشت، نوح دست خود را دراز کرد و کبوتر را گرفت و به داخل کشتی برد.

But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark.

10 نوح هفت روز دیگر صبر کرد و بار دیگر همان کبوتر را رها نمود.

And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 این بار، هنگام غروب آفتاب، کبوتر در حالی که برگ زیتون تازه‌ای به منقار داشت، نزد نوح بازگشت. پس نوح فهمید که در بیشتر نقاط، آب فرو نشسته است.

And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth.

12 یک هفته بعد، نوح باز همان کبوتر را رها کرد، ولی این بار کبوتر باز نگشت.

And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him.

13 در ششصد و یکمین سال از زندگی نوح، در اولین روز ماه اول، آب از روی زمین خشک شد. آنگاه نوح پوشش کشتی را برداشت و به بیرون نگریست و دید که سطح زمین خشک شده است.

Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry.

14 در روز بیست و هفتم از ماه دوم، سرانجام همه جا خشک شد.

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

15 در این هنگام خدا به نوح فرمود:

Then God spoke to Noah, saying:

16 «اینک زمان آن رسیده که همه از کشتی خارج شوید.

“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.

17 تمام حیوانات، پرندگان و خزندگان را رها کن تا تولید مثل کنند و بر روی زمین زیاد شوند.»

Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.”

18 پس نوح با همسر و پسران و عروسانش از کشتی بیرون آمد.

And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.

19 و تمام حیوانات و خزندگان و پرندگان نیز دسته‌دسته از کشتی خارج شدند.

Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark.

20 آنگاه نوح مذبحی برای خداوند ساخت و از هر حیوان و پرندهٔ حلال گوشت بر آن قربانی کرد.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar.

21 خداوند از این عمل نوح خشنود گردید و با خود گفت: «من بار دیگر زمین را به خاطر انسان که دلش از کودکی به طرف گناه متمایل است، لعنت نخواهم کرد و اینچنین تمام موجودات زنده را از بین نخواهم برد.

And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done.

22 تا زمانی که جهان باقی است، کشت و زرع، سرما و گرما، زمستان و تابستان، و روز و شب همچنان برقرار خواهد بود.»

All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark