Genèse 8

1 Et Dieu se souvint de Noé, et 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 baissèrent;

And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

2 et les fontaines de l’abîme et les écluses des cieux furent fermées, et la pluie qui tombait du ciel fut retenue.

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

3 Et les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, allant et se retirant; et les eaux diminuèrent au bout de 150 jours.

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

4 Et l’arche reposa sur les montagnes d’Ararat, au septième mois, au dix-septième jour du mois.

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

5 Et les eaux allèrent diminuant jusqu’au dixième mois; au dixième [mois], le premier [jour] du mois, les sommets des montagnes apparurent.

And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

6 Et il arriva, au bout de 40 jours, que Noé ouvrit la fenêtre de l’arche qu’il avait faite;

And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7 et il lâcha le corbeau, qui sortit, allant et revenant jusqu’à ce que les eaux aient séché de dessus la terre.

And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.

8 Et il lâcha d’avec lui la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient baissé sur la face du sol;

And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.

9 mais la colombe ne trouva pas où poser la plante de son pied, et revint à lui dans l’arche, car les eaux étaient sur la face de toute la terre; et il étendit sa main, et la prit, et la fit entrer auprès de lui dans l’arche.

And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

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

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from the ark.

11 Et la colombe vint à lui au temps du soir, et voici, dans son bec, une feuille d’olivier arrachée. Et Noé sut que les eaux avaient baissé sur la terre.

And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

12 Et il attendit encore sept autres jours, et il lâcha la colombe, et elle ne revint plus de nouveau vers lui.

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

13 Et il arriva, l’an 601, au premier [mois], le premier [jour] du mois, que les eaux furent séchées de dessus la terre; et Noé ôta la couverture de l’arche et regarda, et voici, la face du sol avait séché.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

14 Et au second mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut sèche.

And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.

15 Et Dieu parla à Noé, disant:

And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

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

Come out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Fais sortir avec toi tout animal qui est avec toi, de toute chair, tant oiseaux que bétail, et tout reptile qui rampe sur la terre, et qu’ils foisonnent en la terre, et fructifient et multiplient sur la terre.

And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase you and multiply upon the earth.

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

And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

19 Tout animal, tout reptile et tout oiseau, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, selon leurs espèces, sortirent de l’arche.

And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.

20 Et Noé bâtit un autel à l’Éternel, et prit de toute bête pure et de tout oiseau pur, et offrit des holocaustes sur l’autel.

And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.

21 Et l’Éternel flaira une odeur agréable; et l’Éternel dit en son cœur: Je ne maudirai plus de nouveau le sol à cause de l’homme, car l’imagination du cœur de l’homme est mauvaise dès sa jeunesse; et je ne frapperai plus de nouveau tout ce qui est vivant, comme je l’ai fait.

And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh as I have done.

22 Désormais, tant que seront les jours de la terre, les semailles et la moisson, et le froid et le chaud, et l’été et l’hiver, et le jour et la nuit, ne cesseront pas.

All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark