Génesis 8
Nueva Biblia Viva
Dios se acuerda de Noé
8 Entonces Dios se acordó de Noé y de todos los animales que estaban con él en el barco. Dios hizo soplar un fuerte viento sobre la tierra, de modo que las aguas comenzaron a bajar. 2 Se cerraron tanto las fuentes del mar profundo como las compuertas de los cielos, y dejó de llover. 3 Las aguas fueron bajando poco a poco. Después de ciento cincuenta días las aguas habían bajado bastante. 4 Fue por eso que el día diecisiete del mes séptimo el barco se posó sobre las montañas de Ararat. 5 El agua siguió bajando, de modo que el día primero del mes décimo pudieron verse las partes más altas de las montañas.
6 Después de cuarenta días, Noé abrió la ventana que le había hecho al barco 7 y soltó un cuervo, el cual estuvo volando de un lado a otro esperando que la tierra se secara, pero no regresó. 8 Luego Noé soltó una paloma, para ver si ya la tierra estaba seca. 9 Pero la paloma regresó al barco, porque no encontró un lugar seco en el cual pudiera posarse. Entonces Noé extendió su mano, agarró a la paloma y la metió al barco. 10 Esperó otros siete días más y volvió a soltar la paloma. 11 Ya estaba oscureciendo cuando la paloma regresó, trayendo en su pico una ramita verde de olivo. Por eso, Noé se dio cuenta de que las aguas habían bajado mucho, de modo que ya se podía ver la tierra seca. 12 Siete días después volvió a soltar la paloma, pero esta vez la paloma no regresó.
13 Cuando Noé tenía seiscientos un años de vida, las aguas desaparecieron. El primer día del mes primero de ese año, Noé retiró el techo del barco y vio que la tierra estaba casi seca. 14 El día veintisiete del segundo mes, la tierra ya estaba completamente seca. 15 Entonces Dios le dijo a Noé: 16-17 «Ya pueden salir todos. Deja salir a todos los animales, aves y reptiles para que se reproduzcan abundantemente y llenen la tierra».
18 Así que Noé, sus hijos, su esposa y sus nueras salieron del barco. 19 También salieron todos los animales, según su propia especie: los animales salvajes y los domésticos, las aves y los reptiles.
20 Después Noé construyó un altar para adorar al Señor. En ese altar Noé le ofreció a Dios animales y aves adecuados para el sacrificio, es decir, que eran puros. 21 Al Señor le agradó mucho el olor de los sacrificios, y se dijo a sí mismo: «Nunca más volveré a maldecir la tierra por culpa de la humanidad, pues todos los seres humanos están inclinados hacia el mal desde que son niños. ¡Jamás volveré a destruir a los seres vivos, como lo hice en esta ocasión! 22 Mientras exista la tierra, habrá siembra y cosecha; siempre habrá frío y calor, verano e invierno, los días y las noches».
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
Genesis 8
EasyEnglish Bible
The deep water goes away
8 Then God thought of Noah, and all the wild animals and the farm animals that were with him in the ship. He caused a wind to blow over the earth. As a result, the water began to go down. 2 Streams of water stopped coming up from below the earth. Rain stopped coming down from the sky. 3 The deep water continued to go down for 150 days. 4 On the 17th day of the seventh month, the ship stopped on the ground. It was sitting on the top of Ararat mountains. 5 The water continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared above the water.
6 After 40 more days, Noah opened a window in the ship. 7 He sent a raven to fly away. The raven flew away from the ship and then it returned. It continued to do this until the earth was dry.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove. He wanted to see if the water had gone away from the top of the ground. 9 But the dove could not find anywhere to stand. Water still covered all the ground. So it returned to Noah in the ship. Noah put out his hand and took the dove back into the ship. 10 He waited for seven days. Then he sent the dove out of the ship again. 11 The dove returned to Noah in the evening. It carried a fresh leaf from an olive tree in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the water had gone down. 12 He waited for seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again. This time, it did not return to Noah.[a]
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the first month, the water that had covered the earth was now gone. The ground had become dry. Noah made a hole in the roof of the ship and he looked around. He saw that the top of the ground was dry. 14 By the 27th day of the second month, the earth had become completely dry.
15 God said to Noah, 16 ‘Come out of the ship. Bring your wife, your sons and their wives with you. 17 Bring every different kind of living animal out of the ship. Bring out the birds, the animals, and the living things that move across the ground. Now they may give birth to young ones again. They can grow in number all over the earth.’
18 Noah went out of the ship, together with his wife, his sons and their wives. 19 All the living animals also went out of the ship. The birds and the living things that move across the ground all went out. Every different kind of animal came out of the ship, each of them in its own group.
God makes a promise to Noah
20 Then Noah built an altar to make sacrifices to the Lord. He took one from each kind of clean animal and clean bird. He offered them to the Lord as sacrifices which he burned on the altar.[b]
21 The Lord smelled the sacrifice and it made him happy. The Lord said to himself, ‘I will never curse the ground again because of the bad things that people do. From the time that they are children, they want to do bad things. But I will never again destroy everything that breathes, as I have done this time.
22 As long as the earth continues to be here,
the time for people to plant seeds will come each year.
The time for harvest will come each year.
Times of cold and heat will always come.
Summer and winter will always come.
Day and night will never stop.’[c]
Footnotes
- 8:12 A raven is a big black bird. A dove is a white or grey bird. Olives are small round fruits that grow on an olive tree.
- 8:20 When Noah left the ship, he worshipped God. He built an altar to do this. He offered a sacrifice to God on the altar. God had kept them safe and Noah wanted to thank God. He did this before he did anything else.
- 8:22 As long as the earth is here, the days and the seasons will continue to happen. God has promised this. He made the universe and he continues to cause it to work properly.
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