Genesis 8
1 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.
Alors Dieu se souvint de Noé, et de tous les animaux sauvages et domestiques qui étaient avec lui dans l’arche. Dieu fit passer un souffle sur la terre, et les eaux se calmèrent.
2 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.
Les sources de l’Abîme et les cataractes célestes se refermèrent, et la pluie ne s’échappa plus du ciel.
3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
Les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, se retirèrent par degrés; elles avaient commencé à diminuer au bout de cent cinquante jours.
4 (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.
Le septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l’arche s’arrêta sur les monts Ararat.
5 The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month [of that year], the tops of other mountains became visible.
Les eaux allèrent toujours décroissant jusqu’au dixième mois; le premier jour du dixième mois, apparurent les cimes des montagnes.
6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu’il avait pratiquée à l’arche.
7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
Il lâcha le corbeau, qui partit, allant et revenant jusqu’à ce que les eaux eussent laissé la terre à sec.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
Puis, il lâcha la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient baissé sur la face du sol.
9 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.
Mais la colombe ne trouva pas de point d’appui pour la plante de ses pieds, et elle revint vers lui dans l’arche, parce que l’eau couvrait encore la surface de la terre. Il étendit la main, la prit et la fit rentrer auprès de lui dans l’arche.
10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
Il attendit encore sept autres jours, et renvoya de nouveau la colombe de l’arche.
11 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.
La colombe revint vers lui sur le soir, tenant dans son bec une feuille d’olivier fraîche. Noé jugea que les eaux avaient baissé sur la terre.
12 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Ayant attendu sept autres jours encore, il fit partir la colombe, qui ne revint plus auprès de lui.
13 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.
Ce fut dans la six cent unième année, au premier mois, le premier jour du mois, que les eaux laissèrent la terre à sec. Noé écarta le plafond de l’arche et vit que la surface du sol était desséchée.
14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.
Et au deuxième mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre était sèche.
15 Then God said to Noah,
Dieu parla à Noé en ces termes:
16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
Sors de l’arche, toi et ta femme, et tes fils et leurs femmes avec toi.
17 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.”
Tout être vivant de toute espèce qui est avec toi: volatile, quadrupède, reptile se traînant sur la terre, fais-les sortir avec toi; qu’ils foisonnent dans la terre, qu’ils croissent et multiplient sur la terre!"
18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
Noé sortit avec ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils.
19 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.
Tous les quadrupèdes, tous les reptiles, tous les oiseaux, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre sortit, selon ses espèces, de l’arche.
20 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.
Noé érigea un autel à l’Éternel; il prit de tous les quadrupèdes purs, de tous les oiseaux purs, et les offrit en holocauste sur l’autel.
21 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.
L’Éternel aspira la délectable odeur, et il dit en lui-même: "Désormais, je ne maudirai plus la terre à cause de l’homme, car les conceptions du cœur de l’homme sont mauvaises dès son enfance; désormais, je ne frapperai plus tous les vivants, comme je l’ai fait.
22 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.”
Plus jamais, tant que durera la terre, semailles et récolte, froidure et chaleur, été et hiver, jour et nuit, ne seront interrompus."
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
