1Bůh však pamatoval na Noema i na všechnu zvěř a dobytek, který s ním byl v arše. Nechal nad zemí vát vítr a voda se utišila.2Prameny propasti i nebeské průduchy se zavřely a průtrž z nebe přestala.3Voda začala ze země zvolna ustupovat a po sto padesáti dnech konečně opadla.4Sedmnáctého dne sedmého měsíce archa spočinula na pohoří Ararat.5Voda zvolna opadala až do desátého měsíce. Prvního dne desátého měsíce se ukázaly vrcholky hor.6Po čtyřiceti dnech Noe otevřel okno, jež v arše udělal,7a vypustil havrana. Ten vylétal a zase se vracel, dokud voda na zemi nevyschla.8Potom vypustil holubici, kterou měl s sebou, aby zjistil, zda voda ustoupila z povrchu země.9Holubice však nenašla místo, kde by mohla nohama spočinout, a vrátila se k němu do archy, neboť voda ještě pokrývala celý povrch země. Noe tedy vystrčil ruku, chytil ji a vzal ji k sobě do archy.10Počkal ještě sedm dní a znovu vypustil holubici z archy.11Večer se k němu holubice vrátila a hle, v zobáku měla čerstvý olivový lístek! Tak Noe poznal, že voda ustoupila ze země.12Počkal tedy dalších sedm dní, vypustil holubici znovu a už se k němu nevrátila.13Šestistého prvního roku Noemova života, prvního dne prvního měsíce, začala voda na zemi vysychat. Noe tedy odsunul příklop archy, podíval se ven a hle, zemský povrch osychal.14Dvacátého sedmého dne druhého měsíce byla země suchá.15Tehdy Bůh k Noemovi promluvil:16„Vyjdi z archy – ty a s tebou tví synové, tvá žena a ženy tvých synů.17Vyveď s sebou všechno živé, co máš u sebe – veškeré tvory z ptactva, dobytka i havěti lezoucí po zemi. Ať se hemží na zemi a ať se na zemi plodí a množí.“18Noe tedy vyšel ven a s ním i jeho synové, jeho žena a ženy jeho synů.19Všechna zvěř, všechna havěť, každý pták, všechno, co se hýbe po zemi, vyšlo z archy podle svých čeledí.20Noe tehdy postavil Hospodinu oltář a vzal ze všech čistých zvířat a ze všeho čistého ptactva a obětoval na oltáři zápalné oběti.21Když Hospodin ucítil příjemnou vůni, řekl si v srdci: „Už nikdy kvůli člověku neprokleji zem, i když jsou myšlenky lidského srdce už od mládí zlé. Nikdy už nepobiji vše živé, jako jsem to učinil.22Dokud bude trvat země, nikdy nepřestane setba a žeň, chlad a horko, léto, zima ani noc a den.“
1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. (Gn 19,29; Gn 30,22; Ex 2,24; Ex 14,21; 1S 1,19)2The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, (Gn 7,11)3and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, (Gn 7,24)4and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. (2Kr 19,37; Iz 37,38; Jr 51,27)5And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made7and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.8Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.9But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.10He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.11And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.12Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.15Then God said to Noah,16“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. (Gn 7,13)17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” (Gn 1,22; Gn 1,28; Gn 9,1)18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
God’s Covenant with Noah
20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.21And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse[1] the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. (Gn 3,17; Gn 6,5; Gn 6,17; Gn 9,11; Gn 9,15; Ex 29,18; Ex 29,25; Ex 29,41; Lv 1,9; Lv 1,13; Lv 1,17; Ž 58,3; Iz 54,9; Ez 16,19; Ez 20,41; Mt 15,19; Ř 1,21; 2K 2,15; Ef 5,2; Fp 4,18)22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Jr 5,24; Jr 33,20; Jr 33,25)