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.
Allah tidak melupakan Nuh dan segala binatang yang ada bersamanya di dalam kapal itu. Allah membuat angin bertiup, sehingga air itu mulai surut.
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.
Semua mata air di bawah bumi dan semua pintu air di langit ditutupnya. Hujan berhenti,
3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
dan air semakin surut. Sesudah 150 hari air tidak begitu tinggi lagi.
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.
Pada tanggal tujuh belas bulan tujuh, kapal itu kandas di sebuah puncak di pegunungan 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.
Air terus surut dan pada tanggal satu bulan sepuluh, puncak-puncak gunung mulai tampak.
6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
Setelah empat puluh hari, Nuh membuka sebuah jendela kapal,
7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
dan melepaskan seekor burung gagak. Burung itu tidak kembali ke kapal melainkan terus terbang kian kemari sampai air banjir sudah surut sama sekali.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
Sementara itu, Nuh melepaskan seekor burung merpati untuk mengetahui apakah air itu memang telah surut.
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.
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.
10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
Nuh menunggu tujuh hari lagi, lalu melepaskan lagi burung merpati itu.
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.
Pada petang hari burung itu kembali kepadanya membawa sehelai daun zaitun yang segar pada paruhnya. Sekarang Nuh tahu bahwa air telah surut.
12 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Setelah menunggu tujuh hari lagi, ia melepaskan merpati itu sekali lagi; dan kali itu burung itu tidak kembali kepadanya.
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.
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.
14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.
Pada tanggal dua puluh tujuh bulan dua, bumi sudah kering.
15 Then God said to Noah,
Lalu berkatalah Allah kepada Nuh,
16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
"Keluarlah dari kapal itu bersama-sama dengan istrimu, anak-anakmu dan istri-istri mereka.
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.”
Bawalah keluar semua burung dan binatang lainnya, besar maupun kecil, supaya mereka bisa berkembang biak dan menyebar ke seluruh bumi."
18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
Lalu keluarlah Nuh dari kapal itu bersama-sama dengan istrinya, anak-anaknya dan istri-istri mereka.
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.
Semua burung dan binatang darat keluar dari kapal itu, masing-masing bersama kelompok sejenisnya.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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."
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
