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.

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 Les sources de l’abîme et les écluses des cieux furent fermées, et la pluie ne tomba plus du ciel.

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

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.

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 Le septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l’arche s’arrêta sur les montagnes d’Ararat.

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

5 Les eaux allèrent en diminuant jusqu’au dixième mois. Le dixième mois, le premier jour du mois, apparurent les sommets des montagnes.

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 Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu’il avait faite à l’arche.

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

7 Il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, partant et revenant, jusqu’à ce que les eaux eussent séché sur la terre.

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

8 Il lâcha aussi la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient diminué à la surface de la terre.

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 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 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 Il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha de nouveau la colombe hors de l’arche.

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

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.

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 Il attendit encore sept autres jours; et il lâcha la colombe. Mais elle ne revint plus à lui.

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

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 Le second mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut sèche.

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

15 Alors Dieu parla à Noé, en disant:

Then God spoke to Noah, saying:

16 Sors de l’arche, toi et ta femme, tes fils et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.

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

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 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 Et Noé sortit, avec ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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