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.
神はノアと、箱舟の中にいたすべての生き物と、すべての家畜とを心にとめられた。神が風を地の上に吹かせられたので、水は退いた。
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.
また淵の源と、天の窓とは閉ざされて、天から雨が降らなくなった。
3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,
それで水はしだいに地の上から引いて、百五十日の後には水が減り、
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.
箱舟は七月十七日にアララテの山にとどまった。
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.
水はしだいに減って、十月になり、十月一日に山々の頂が現れた。
6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.
四十日たって、ノアはその造った箱舟の窓を開いて、
7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.
からすを放ったところ、からすは地の上から水がかわききるまで、あちらこちらへ飛びまわった。
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.
ノアはまた地のおもてから、水がひいたかどうかを見ようと、彼の所から、はとを放ったが、
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.
はとは足の裏をとどめる所が見つからなかったので、箱舟のノアのもとに帰ってきた。水がまだ全地のおもてにあったからである。彼は手を伸べて、これを捕え、箱舟の中の彼のもとに引き入れた。
10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
それから七日待って再びはとを箱舟から放った。
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.
はとは夕方になって彼のもとに帰ってきた。見ると、そのくちばしには、オリブの若葉があった。ノアは地から水がひいたのを知った。
12 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
さらに七日待ってまた、はとを放ったところ、もはや彼のもとには帰ってこなかった。
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.
六百一歳の一月一日になって、地の上の水はかれた。ノアが箱舟のおおいを取り除いて見ると、土のおもては、かわいていた。
14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.
二月二十七日になって、地は全くかわいた。
15 Then God said to Noah,
この時、神はノアに言われた、
16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.
「あなたは妻と、子らと、子らの妻たちと共に箱舟を出なさい。
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.”
あなたは、共にいる肉なるすべての生き物、すなわち鳥と家畜と、地のすべての這うものとを連れて出て、これらのものが地に群がり、地の上にふえ広がるようにしなさい」。
18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
ノアは共にいた子らと、妻と、子らの妻たちとを連れて出た。
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.
またすべての獣、すべての這うもの、すべての鳥、すべて地の上に動くものは皆、種類にしたがって箱舟を出た。
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.
ノアは主に祭壇を築いて、すべての清い獣と、すべての清い鳥とのうちから取って、燔祭を祭壇の上にささげた。
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.
主はその香ばしいかおりをかいで、心に言われた、「わたしはもはや二度と人のゆえに地をのろわない。人が心に思い図ることは、幼い時から悪いからである。わたしは、このたびしたように、もう二度と、すべての生きたものを滅ぼさない。
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.”
地のある限り、種まきの時も、刈入れの時も、暑さ寒さも、夏冬も、昼も夜もやむことはないであろう」。
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
