1 ث ُمَّ تَذَكَّرَ اللهُ نُوحَ وَكُلَّ الحَيواناتِ البَرِّيَّةِ وَكُلَّ المَواشِيَ الَّتِي كانَتْ مَعَهُ فِي السَّفِينَةِ. فَجَعَلَ اللهُ رِيحاً تَهُبُّ عَلَى الأرْضِ. فَبَدَأ المِاءُ يَنخَفِضُ.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

2 و َتَوَقَّفَ تَدَفُّقُ الماءِ مِنْ تَحْتِ الأرْضِ. وَسَدَّتِ السَّماءُ نَوافِذَها، فَلَمْ يَعُدِ المَطَرُ يَنْزِلُ مِنَ السَّماءِ.

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 ث ُمَّ بَدَأ الماءُ يَنْسَحِبُ شَيئاً فَشَيئاً مِنَ الأرْضِ. فَبَدَأ الماءُ يَنحَسِرُ فِي نِهايَةِ المِئَةِ وَالخَمْسِينَ يَوْماً،

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

4 إ لَى أنِ اسْتَقَرَّتِ السَّفِينَةُ عَلَى جِبالِ أراراطَ فِي اليَوْمِ السّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ السّابِعِ.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

5 و َاسْتَمَرَّ انخِفاضُ الماءِ حَتَّى الشَّهْرِ العاشِرِ. وَفِي اليَوْمِ الخامِسِ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ العاشِرِ ظَهَرَتْ قِمَمُ الجِبالِ.

The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

6 و َبَعْدَ أربَعِينَ يَوْماً، فَتَحَ نُوحُ نافِذَةَ السَّفِينَةِ الَّتِي صَنَعَها.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

7 و َأرْسَلَ غُراباً. فَطارَ الغُرابُ مِنْ مَكانٍ إلَى آخَرَ إلَى أنْ نَشِفَتِ المِياهُ عَنِ الأرْضِ.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8 ث ُمَّ أرْسَلَ نُوحُ يَمامَةً مِنْ عِنْدِهِ لِيَرَى إنْ كانَ الماءُ قَدِ انْحَسَرَ مِنْ سَطحِ الأرْضِ.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

9 و َلَكِنَّ اليَمامَةَ لَمْ تَجِدْ مَكاناً تَحُطُّ عَلَيهِ لأنَّ الأرْضَ كانَتْ ما تَزالُ مُغَطّاةً بِالماءِ. فَعادَتْ إلَى نُوحَ فِي السَّفِينَةِ. فَأخرَجَ نُوحُ ذِراعَهُ وَأمْسَكَ بِاليَمامَةِ، وَأدخَلَها إلَى السَّفِينَةِ.

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

10 و َانتَظَرَ نُوحُ سَبْعَةَ أيّامٍ أُيضاً. ثُمَّ أرسَلَ اليَمامَةَ مِنَ السَّفِينَةِ ثانِيَةً.

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

11 ف َعادَتِ اليَمامَةُ إلَيهِ فِي ذَلِكَ المَساءِ، تَحْمِلُ فِي مِنْقارِها وَرَقَةَ زَيتُونٍ خَضْراءَ. فَعَرَفَ نُوحُ أنَّ المياهَ قَدِ انخَفَضَتْ عَنِ الأرْضِ.

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

12 ف َانتَظَرَ نُوحُ سَبْعَةَ أيّامٍ أُيضاً، وَأرْسَلَ اليَمامَةَ. فَلَمْ تَعُدِ إلَيهِ.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.

13 و َفِي اليَوْمِ الأوَّلِ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الأوَّلِ، فِي السَّنَةِ الواحِدَةِ وَالسِّتِّ مِئَةٍ مِنْ عُمْرِ نَوْحٍ، جَفَّتِ المِياهُ عَنِ الأرْضِ. فَفَتَحَ نُوحُ بابَ السَّفِينَةِ وَنَظَرَ، فَرَأى أنَّ سَطحَ الأرْضِ قَدْ جَفَّ.

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

14 و َفِي اليَوْمِ السّابِعِ وَالعِشْرِينَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الثّانِي، جَفَّتِ الأرْضُ تَماماً.

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15 ف َقالَ اللهُ لِنُوحَ:

God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 « اخرُجْ مِنَ السَّفِينَةِ أنتَ وَزَوْجَتُكَ وَأبناؤكَ وَزَوْجاتُهُمْ مَعَكَ،

“Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

17 و َأخرِجْ كُلَّ كائِنٍ حَيٍّ مَعَكَ، مِنْ كُلِّ نَوْعٍ مِنَ الحَيوانِ وَالطَّيرِ وَالماشِيَةِ وَالزَّواحِفِ عَلَى التَّرابِ، لِكَي تَتَكاثَرَ وَتَتَناسَلَ وَتَزْدادَ عَلَى الأرْضِ.»

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

18 ف َخَرَجَ نُوحُ وَأبناؤهُ وَزَوْجَتُهُ وَزَوجَاتُ أبنائِهِ مِنَ السَّفِينَةِ.

Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

19 و َخَرَجَ مِنَ السَّفِينَةِ كُلُّ حَيوانٍ، وَكُلُّ زاحِفٍ، وَكُلُّ طَيرٍ، وَكُلُّ ما يَتَحَرَّكُ عَلَى الأرْضِ، كُلٌّ حَسَبَ جِنْسِهِ.

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

20 ث ُمَّ بَنَى نُوحُ مَذْبَحاً للهِ. وَأخَذَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أنْواعِ الحَيواناتِ الطّاهِرَةِ وَالطُّيُورِ الطّاهِرَةِ، وَقَدَّمَها قَرابِينَ عَلَى المَذْبَحِ.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 و َرَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْ هَذِهِ الذَّبائِحِ وَقالَ: «لَنْ ألْعَنَ الأرْضَ ثانِيَةً بِسَبَبِ النّاسِ، لأنَّ قَلْبَ الإنسانِ مَيّالٌ إلَى الشَّرِّ مُنْذُ صِغَرِهِ. فَلَنْ أعُودَ إلَى إهلاكِ كُلِّ مَخلُوقٍ حَيِّ كَما فَعَلْتُ الآنَ.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

22 ف َما دامَتْ هُناكَ أرْضٌ، سَيَظَلُّ هُناكَ زَرْعٌ وَحَصادٌ، بَرْدٌ وَحَرٌّ، صَيفٌ وَشِتاءٌ، وَلَيلٌ وَنَهارٌ.»

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”