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.

Mais Dieu s’étant souvenu de Noé, et de toutes les bêtes sauvages, et de tous les animaux domestiques qui étaient avec lui dans l’arche, fit venir un vent sur la terre, et les eaux diminuèrent.

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.

Et les sources de l’abîme et les cataractes du ciel furent fermées, et les pluies du ciel furent arrêtées.

3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,

Et les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, allant et revenant, et elles commencèrent à décroître après 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.

Et l’arche s’arrêta au septième mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, sur les montagnes de l’Arménie.

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.

Cependant les eaux allèrent en décroissant jusqu’au dixième mois; car au dixième mois, le premier jour du mois parurent les sommets 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.

Et lorsque quarante jours furent passés, Noé, ouvrant la fenêtre qu’il avait faite à l’arche, lâcha le corbeau,

7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.

Qui sortit et ne revint plus, jusqu’à ce que les eaux fussent desséchées sur la terre.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.

Il lâcha aussi la colombe, pour voir si les eaux n’étaient plus sur la surface de la terre.

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 comme elle ne trouva pas où poser son pied, elle revint vers lui dans l’arche, parce que les eaux étaient encore sur toute la terre: et il tendit la main, et l’ayant prise, il la remit dans l’arche.

10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.

Et ayant attendu encore sept autres jours, il envoya de nouveau la colombe hors 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.

Mais elle vint à lui vers le soir, portant à son bec un rameau d’olivier ayant des feuilles vertes. Noé comprit donc que les eaux n’étaient plus sur la face de la terre.

12 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Il attendit cependant sept autres jours, et il envoya la colombe qui ne revint plus vers 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.

Ainsi l’an six cent un, au premier mois, le premier jour du mois, les eaux diminuèrent sur la terre, et Noé, ouvrant le toit de l’arche, vit que la surface de la terre était séchée.

14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.

Au second mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut toute séchée.

15 Then God said to Noah,

Alors Dieu parla à Noé, disant:

16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.

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

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.”

Tous les animaux qui sont auprès de toi, de toute chair, tant parmi les volatiles que parmi les quadrupèdes et tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre, fais-les sortir avec toi, et entrez sur la terre: Croissez et vous y multipliez.

18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.

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

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.

Et tous les animaux aussi, les quadrupèdes et les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre, chacun selon son espèce, sortirent 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.

Or Noé bâtit un autel au Seigneur; et prenant de tous les quadrupèdes et de tous les oiseaux purs, il 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.

Et le Seigneur en sentit l’odeur suave, et dit: Je ne maudirai plus la terre à cause des hommes; car les sentiments et les pensées du cœur de l’homme sont inclinés au mal dès sa jeunesse; je ne frapperai donc plus toute âme vivante, comme j’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.”

Durant tous les jours de la terre, des semailles et de la moisson, le froid et la chaleur, Fêté et l’hiver, le jour et la nuit ne cesseront point.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark