Genèse 7
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L’embarquement
7 Puis l’Eternel dit à Noé : Entre dans le bateau, toi et toute ta famille car je ne vois que toi qui sois juste parmi tes contemporains. 2 Prends sept couples des animaux purs[a], sept mâles et sept femelles, et un couple de tous les animaux qui ne sont pas purs, le mâle et sa femelle. 3 Prends aussi sept couples de chaque espèce d’oiseaux pour en perpétuer la race sur toute la terre. 4 Car dans sept jours, je vais faire pleuvoir sur la terre durant quarante jours et quarante nuits et j’effacerai de la surface de la terre tous les êtres que j’ai créés.
5 Noé fit tout ce que l’Eternel lui avait ordonné.
6 Noé était âgé de six cents ans quand le déluge vint sur la terre. 7 Il entra dans le bateau avec ses fils, sa femme et ses belles-filles pour échapper aux eaux du déluge[b]. 8 Un couple d’animaux – un mâle et une femelle de ceux qui sont purs et de ceux qui ne le sont pas – ainsi que des oiseaux et de tout ce qui se meut à ras de terre 9 deux par deux, vinrent trouver Noé pour entrer dans le bateau, comme Dieu l’avait prescrit à Noé. 10 Au bout de sept jours, les eaux du déluge s’abattirent sur la terre.
Le déluge
11 L’an 600 de la vie de Noé, le dix-septième jour du deuxième mois de l’année, quand toutes les sources d’eaux souterraines jaillirent et les écluses du ciel s’ouvrirent, 12 et la pluie tomba sur la terre durant quarante jours et quarante nuits. 13 Ce même jour, Noé entra dans le bateau ainsi que ses fils, Sem, Cham et Japhet, sa femme et ses trois belles-filles. 14 Avec eux était entrée chaque espèce d’animaux sauvages, de bestiaux, de bêtes qui se meuvent à ras de terre, d’oiseaux, de petits oiseaux et tous les volatiles. 15 Un couple de tout être vivant était venu trouver Noé pour entrer dans le bateau. 16 Ils étaient arrivés deux par deux, mâle et femelle, comme Dieu l’avait ordonné. Puis l’Eternel referma la porte derrière Noé, 17 et le déluge s’abattit durant quarante jours sur la terre, les eaux montèrent et soulevèrent le bateau, qui se mit à flotter au-dessus de la terre.
18 Les eaux montèrent, grossirent considérablement sur la terre et le bateau vogua sur les flots. 19 Le niveau de l’eau montait de plus en plus, de sorte que toutes les hautes montagnes sous tous les cieux furent submergées. 20 Les eaux s’élevèrent de sept à huit mètres[c] au-dessus des montagnes qui disparurent sous les flots, 21 et toute créature qui bougeait sur la terre périt : les oiseaux, le bétail et les animaux sauvages, toutes les bestioles qui pullulaient sur la terre, et tous les hommes. 22 Tout ce qui respirait sur la terre ferme mourut. 23 Ainsi l’Eternel effaça de la surface du sol tous les êtres vivants, depuis l’homme jusqu’au bétail, jusqu’aux animaux qui se meuvent à ras de terre et jusqu’aux oiseaux du ciel. Ils furent effacés de la terre et il ne resta que Noé et ceux qui étaient avec lui dans le bateau. 24 La crue des eaux au-dessus de la terre dura cent cinquante jours.
Genesis 7
English Standard Version
7 Then the Lord said to Noah, (A)“Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that (B)you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all (C)clean animals,[a] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs[b] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days (D)I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, (E)and every living thing[c] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 (F)And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the (G)fountains of the great deep burst forth, and (H)the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They (I)went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in (J)as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.
17 The flood (K)continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[d] deep. 21 And (L)all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land (M)in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only (N)Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Footnotes
- Genesis 7:2 Or seven of each kind of clean animal
- Genesis 7:3 Or seven of each kind
- Genesis 7:4 Hebrew all existence; also verse 23
- Genesis 7:20 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
Genesis 7
King James Version
7 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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