Genesis 8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 8
1 God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside. 2 The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back. 3 Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished 4 that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.[a] 5 The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made, 7 [b]and he released a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth. 8 Then he released a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. 9 But the dove could find no place to perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water over all the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark. 10 He waited yet seven days more and again released the dove from the ark. 11 In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had diminished on the earth. 12 He waited yet another seven days and then released the dove; but this time it did not come back.
13 [c]In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water began to dry up on the earth. Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground had dried. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Then God said to Noah: 16 Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you—all creatures, be they birds or animals or crawling things that crawl on the earth—and let them abound on the earth, and be fertile and multiply on it.(A) 18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives; 19 and all the animals, all the birds, and all the crawling creatures that crawl on the earth went out of the ark by families.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done.(B)
22 All the days of the earth,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
Summer and winter,
and day and night
shall not cease.(C)
Footnotes
- 8:4 The mountains of Ararat: the mountain country of ancient Arartu in northwest Iraq, which was the highest part of the world to the biblical writer. There is no Mount Ararat in the Bible.
- 8:7–12 In the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, Utnapishtim (the equivalent of Noah) released in succession a dove, a swallow, and a raven. When the raven did not return, Utnapishtim knew it was safe to leave the ark. The first century A.D. Roman author Pliny tells of Indian sailors who release birds in order to follow them toward land.
- 8:13–14 On the first day of the first month, the world was in the state it had been on the day of creation in chap. 1. Noah had to wait another month until the earth was properly dry as in 1:9.
Génesis 8
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Fin del diluvio
8 Entonces, Dios se acordó de Noé y de todos los animales, tanto de los salvajes como de los domésticos, que estaban con él en el arca; hizo pasar un viento fuerte sobre la tierra, y el nivel de las aguas comenzó a descender. 2 Se cerraron las fuentes del océano y las compuertas del cielo, y la lluvia cesó. 3 Poco a poco las aguas se fueron retirando de la tierra y, al cabo de ciento cincuenta días, ya había descendido tanto el nivel 4 que el día diecisiete del mes séptimo el arca encalló sobre las montañas de Ararat. 5 Las aguas continuaron bajando paulatinamente hasta el mes décimo; y el primer día de ese mes asomaron los picos de las montañas.
6 Transcurridos cuarenta días, Noé abrió la ventana que había hecho en el arca 7 y soltó un cuervo que voló de acá para allá, hasta que se secaron las aguas sobre la tierra. 8 Después soltó una paloma para comprobar si las aguas ya habían bajado del todo; 9 pero la paloma no encontró dónde posarse y regresó al arca, pues la tierra aún estaba cubierta por las aguas. Así que Noé sacó la mano, tomó la paloma y la metió consigo en el arca.
10 Esperó siete días más y volvió a soltar la paloma desde el arca. 11 Al atardecer, la paloma regresó portando en su pico una rama de olivo recién arrancada. Noé comprendió que las aguas iban desapareciendo. 12 Esperó siete días más y volvió a soltar la paloma, pero esta vez ya no volvió.
13 En el año seiscientos uno de la vida de Noé, el día primero del primer mes, las aguas que cubrían la superficie de la tierra se secaron. Noé levantó la cubierta del arca, miró y descubrió que la tierra ya estaba seca. 14 Para el día veintisiete del mes segundo, la tierra estaba ya completamente seca.
Noé sale del arca
15 Entonces dijo Dios a Noé:
16 — Sal del arca, tú, tu mujer, tus hijos y tus nueras. 17 Saca también a todos los animales que están contigo: aves, ganados y reptiles. ¡Que sean fecundos! ¡Que se reproduzcan y pueblen la tierra!
18 Salió, pues, Noé con sus hijos, su mujer y sus nueras; 19 y con todos los animales: ganados, aves y reptiles. Todos los animales salieron del arca agrupados por especies.
20 Noé construyó un altar al Señor, tomó animales y aves de toda especie pura, y los ofreció en holocausto sobre el altar. 21 Cuando el Señor aspiró el grato aroma se dijo: “Aunque las intenciones del ser humano son perversas desde su juventud, nunca más volveré a maldecir la tierra por su culpa. Jamás volveré a destruir a todos los seres vivientes, como acabo de hacerlo.
22 Mientras el mundo exista
no han de faltar
siembra y cosecha,
frío y calor,
verano e invierno,
día y noche”.
Genesis 8
New King James Version
Noah’s Deliverance
8 Then God (A)remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. (B)And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 (C)The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also (D)stopped, and (E)the rain from heaven was restrained. 3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end (F)of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened (G)the window of the ark which he had made. 7 Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. 8 He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. 10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. 11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, (H)you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and (I)be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
God’s Covenant with Creation
20 Then Noah built an (J)altar to the Lord, and took of (K)every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered (L)burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled (M)a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again (N)curse the ground for man’s sake, although the (O)imagination[a] of man’s heart is evil from his youth; (P)nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22 “While the earth (Q)remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And (R)day and night
Shall not cease.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 8:21 intent or thought
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