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Genesis 8
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8 But God remembered[a] Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over[b] the earth and the waters receded. 2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed,[c] and the rain stopped falling from the sky. 3 The waters kept receding steadily[d] from the earth, so that they[e] had gone down[f] by the end of the 150 days. 4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.[g] 5 The waters kept on receding[h] until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.[i]

6 At the end of forty days,[j] Noah opened the window he had made in the ark[k] 7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth[l] until the waters had dried up on the earth.

8 Then Noah[m] sent out a dove[n] to see if the waters had receded[o] from the surface of the ground. 9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered[p] the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah[q] in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove,[r] and brought it back into the ark.[s] 10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 11 When[t] the dove returned to him in the evening, there was[u] a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again,[v] but it did not return to him this time.[w]

13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year,[x] in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that[y] the surface of the ground was dry. 14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth[z] was dry.

15 Then God spoke to Noah and said, 16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out[aa] every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase[ab] and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”[ac]

18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. 19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.[ad] 21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma[ae] and said[af] to himself,[ag] “I will never again curse[ah] the ground because of humankind, even though[ai] the inclination of their minds[aj] is evil from childhood on.[ak] I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

22 “While the earth continues to exist,[al]
planting time[am] and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
and day and night will not cease.”

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:1 tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).
  2. Genesis 8:1 tn Heb “to pass over.”
  3. Genesis 8:2 tn Some (e.g., NIV) translate the preterite verb forms in this verse as past perfects (e.g., “had been closed”), for it seems likely that the sources of the water would have stopped before the waters receded.
  4. Genesis 8:3 tn The construction combines a Qal preterite from שׁוּב (shuv) with its infinitive absolute to indicate continuous action. The infinitive absolute from הָלָךְ (halakh) is included for emphasis: “the waters returned…going and returning.”
  5. Genesis 8:3 tn Heb “the waters.” The pronoun (“they”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  6. Genesis 8:3 tn The vav (ו) consecutive with the preterite here describes the consequence of the preceding action.
  7. Genesis 8:4 tn Heb “on the mountains of Ararat.” Obviously a boat (even one as large as the ark) cannot rest on multiple mountains. Perhaps (1) the preposition should be translated “among,” or (2) the plural “mountains” should be understood in the sense of “mountain range” (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 53). A more probable option (3) is that the plural indicates an indefinite singular, translated “one of the mountains” (see GKC 400 §124.o).sn Ararat is the Hebrew name for Urartu, the name of a mountainous region located north of Mesopotamia in modern day eastern Turkey. See E. M. Yamauchi, Foes from the Northern Frontier (SBA), 29-32; G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 1:184-85; C. Westermann, Genesis, 1:443-44.
  8. Genesis 8:5 tn Heb “the waters were going and lessening.” The perfect verb form הָיָה (hayah) is used as an auxiliary verb with the infinitive absolute חָסוֹר (khasor, “lessening”), while the infinitive absolute הָלוֹךְ (halokh) indicates continuous action.
  9. Genesis 8:5 tn Or “could be seen.”
  10. Genesis 8:6 tn The introductory verbal form וַיְהִי (vayehi), traditionally rendered “and it came to pass,” serves as a temporal indicator and has not been translated here.
  11. Genesis 8:6 tn Heb “opened the window in the ark which he had made.” The perfect tense (“had made”) refers to action preceding the opening of the window, and is therefore rendered as a past perfect. Since in English “had made” could refer to either the ark or the window, the order of the phrases was reversed in the translation to clarify that the window is the referent.
  12. Genesis 8:7 tn Heb “and it went out, going out and returning.” The Hebrew verb יָצָא (yatsaʾ), translated here “flying,” is modified by two infinitives absolute indicating that the raven went back and forth.
  13. Genesis 8:8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Noah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  14. Genesis 8:8 tn The Hebrew text adds “from him.” This has not been translated for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.
  15. Genesis 8:8 tn The Hebrew verb קָלָל (qalal) normally means “to be light, to be slight”; it refers here to the waters receding.
  16. Genesis 8:9 tn The words “still covered” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  17. Genesis 8:9 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Noah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  18. Genesis 8:9 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the dove) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  19. Genesis 8:9 tn Heb “and he brought it to himself to the ark.”
  20. Genesis 8:11 tn The clause introduced by vav (ו) consecutive is translated as a temporal clause subordinated to the following clause.
  21. Genesis 8:11 tn The deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) draws attention to the olive leaf. It invites readers to enter into the story, as it were, and look at the olive leaf with their own eyes.
  22. Genesis 8:12 tn The word “again” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  23. Genesis 8:12 tn Heb “it did not again return to him still.” For a study of this section of the flood narrative, see W. O. E. Oesterley, “The Dove with the Olive Leaf (Gen VIII 8-11),” ExpTim 18 (1906/07): 377-78.
  24. Genesis 8:13 tn Heb In the six hundred and first year.” Since this refers to the six hundred and first year of Noah’s life, the word “Noah’s” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  25. Genesis 8:13 tn Heb “and saw and look.” As in v. 11, the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) invites readers to enter into the story, as it were, and look at the dry ground with their own eyes.
  26. Genesis 8:14 tn In v. 13 the ground (הָאֲדָמָה, haʾadamah) is dry; now the earth (הָאָרֶץ, haʾarets) is dry.
  27. Genesis 8:17 tn The words “bring out” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  28. Genesis 8:17 tn Following the Hiphil imperative, “bring out,” the three perfect verb forms with vav (ו) consecutive carry an imperatival nuance. For a discussion of the Hebrew construction here and the difficulty of translating it into English, see S. R. Driver, A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew, 124-25.
  29. Genesis 8:17 tn Heb “and let them swarm in the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
  30. Genesis 8:20 sn Offered burnt offerings on the altar. F. D. Maurice includes a chapter on the sacrifice of Noah in The Doctrine of Sacrifice. The whole burnt offering, according to Leviticus 1, represented the worshiper’s complete surrender and dedication to the Lord. After the flood Noah could see that God was not only a God of wrath, but a God of redemption and restoration. The one who escaped the catastrophe could best express his gratitude and submission through sacrificial worship, acknowledging God as the sovereign of the universe.
  31. Genesis 8:21 tn The Lord “smelled” (וַיָּרַח, vayyarakh) a “soothing smell” (רֵיחַ הַנִּיחֹחַ, reakh hannikhoakh). The object forms a cognate accusative with the verb. The language is anthropomorphic. The offering had a sweet aroma that pleased or soothed. The expression in Lev 1 signifies that God accepts the offering with pleasure, and in accepting the offering he accepts the worshiper.
  32. Genesis 8:21 tn Heb “and the Lord said.”
  33. Genesis 8:21 tn Heb “in his heart.”
  34. Genesis 8:21 tn Here the Hebrew word translated “curse” is קָלָל (qalal), used in the Piel verbal stem.
  35. Genesis 8:21 tn The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) can be used in a concessive sense (see BDB 473 s.v. כִּי), which makes good sense in this context. Its normal causal sense (“for”) does not fit the context here very well.
  36. Genesis 8:21 tn Heb “the inclination of the heart of humankind.”
  37. Genesis 8:21 tn Heb “from his youth.”
  38. Genesis 8:22 tn Heb “yet all the days of the earth.” The idea is “[while there are] yet all the days of the earth,” meaning, “as long as the earth exists.”
  39. Genesis 8:22 tn Heb “seed,” which stands here by metonymy for the time when seed is planted.
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Genesis 8
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8 Hindi kinalimutan ng Dios si Noe at ang mga kasama niyang hayop sa loob ng barko. Kaya pinaihip niya ang hangin sa mundo at dahan-dahang bumaba ang tubig. 2 Tinakpan niya ang mga bukal at pinahinto ang ulan. 3 Patuloy ang pagbaba ng tubig sa loob ng 150 araw. 4 At nang ika-17 araw ng ikapitong buwan, sumadsad ang barko sa Bundok ng Ararat. 5 Patuloy ang pagbaba ng tubig. At nang unang araw ng ikasampung buwan, nakikita na ang tuktok ng mga bundok.

6 Pagkalipas ng 40 araw mula ng panahon na nakita na ang tuktok ng mga bundok, binuksan ni Noe ang bintana ng barko 7 at pinakawalan ang isang uwak. At ang uwak na itoʼy parooʼt paritong lumilipad hanggang sa patuloy na pagbaba ng tubig. 8 Pinakawalan din ni Noe ang isang kalapati para malaman niya kung bumaba na ang tubig, 9 pero walang madapuan ang kalapati dahil natatakpan pa rin ng tubig ang buong mundo. Kaya bumalik na lamang ang kalapati kay Noe sa barko. Pinadapo ni Noe ang kalapati sa kamay niya at pinapasok sa barko. 10 Pinalipas muna ni Noe ang pitong araw at muli niyang pinakawalan ang kalapati. 11 Gabi na nang bumalik ang kalapati na may dalang sariwang dahon ng olibo sa kanyang tuka. Kaya nalaman ni Noe na bumaba na ang tubig. 12 Pinalipas muli ni Noe ang pitong araw pa at muli niyang pinakawalan ang kalapati, pero hindi na ito bumalik.

13 Noong unang araw ng unang buwan tuluyan nang bumaba ang tubig. Si Noe ay 601 taong gulang na noon. Binuksan niya ang takip ng barko at nakita niya na tuyo na ang lupa. 14 Nang ika-27 araw ng ikalawang buwan, tuyong-tuyo na talaga ang lupa sa buong mundo.

15 Sinabi agad ng Dios kay Noe, 16 “Lumabas na kayong lahat sa barko. 17 Palabasin nʼyo rin ang lahat ng hayop para dumami sila at mangalat sa buong mundo.” 18 Kaya lumabas si Noe kasama ang kanyang asawa, mga anak na lalaki at mga manugang niya. 19 Lumabas din ang lahat ng hayop: mga lumalakad, lumilipad at gumagapang. Magkakasama sila ayon sa kani-kanilang uri.

Naghandog si Noe

20 Gumawa si Noe ng altar para sa Panginoon. Pagkatapos, kumuha siya ng isa sa bawat uri ng hayop na malinis[a] pati rin sa bawat uri ng mga ibon na malinis, at sinunog niya ito sa altar bilang handog sa Panginoon. 21 Nang naamoy ng Panginoon ang mabangong samyo nito, sinabi niya sa kanyang sarili, “Hindi ko na muling susumpain ang lupa dahil sa ginawa ng tao, kahit alam kong makasalanan ang tao mula nang bata pa siya. Hindi ko na talaga muling lilipulin ang lahat ng nabubuhay katulad ng aking ginawa noon. 22 Habang nagpapatuloy ang mundo, may panahon ng pagtatanim at pag-ani. May taglamig at may tag-init, may tag-ulan at may tag-araw, at may araw at may gabi.”

Footnotes

  1. 8:20 malinis: Ang ibig sabihin, maaaring ihandog o, kainin.
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Genesis 8
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8 But God remembered(A) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,(B) and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens(C) had been closed, and the rain(D) had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days(E) the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month(F) the ark came to rest on the mountains(G) of Ararat.(H) 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days(I) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven,(J) and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.(K) 8 Then he sent out a dove(L) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.(M) 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year,(N) the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month(O) the earth was completely dry.

15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.(P) 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”(Q)

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.(R) 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord(S) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean(T) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings(U) on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma(V) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground(W) because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.(X) And never again will I destroy(Y) all living creatures,(Z) as I have done.

22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,(AA)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,(AB)
day and night
will never cease.”(AC)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:21 Or humans, for
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