de Biblica1Deus não se esqueceu de Noé e de toda a vida animal que estava na embarcação. Fez soprar um vento forte e as águas começaram a baixar.2Os reservatórios profundos do mundo e as comportas do céu estancaram-se e aquela chuva torrencial parou.3As águas começaram gradualmente a baixar de tal forma que, passados os cento e cinquenta dias,4no décimo sétimo dia do sétimo mês, a embarcação tocou no cimo do monte Ararat, ficando aí.5As águas continuaram escoando até o décimo mês e, no primeiro dia do décimo mês, já se viam os cimos das montanhas.6Ao fim de mais quarenta dias Noé abriu a janela que tinha feito na parte superior da construção,7e soltou um corvo que voava e voltava, até que a Terra se secou.8Entretanto, enviou também uma pomba para ver se já haveria alguma parte seca.9A pomba, contudo, não achou nada onde pousar e voltou para a embarcação, porque o nível das águas ainda era muito elevado. Noé estendeu a mão e tomou-a para dentro.10Esperou então sete dias e soltou de novo a pomba.11Desta vez, ela só voltou ao cair da tarde, e trazia no bico uma folha de oliveira. Noé concluiu, assim, que as águas estavam a descer bastante.12Deixou passar ainda mais uma semana, soltou de novo a pomba, mas desta vez ela não voltou.13Passaram-se ainda 29 dias depois disso; era o primeiro dia do primeiro mês. Noé tinha a idade de 601 anos, quando levantou a cobertura da construção e verificou que as águas tinham descido totalmente.14Ao fim de mais 8 semanas, no dia 27 do segundo mês, a terra estava completamente seca.15Então Deus disse a Noé:16“Podem sair todos; tu e a tua família.17Deixa sair igualmente os animais por toda a parte, de forma a que se reproduzam abundantemente na Terra.”18E assim a embarcação em breve ficou vazia dos seus habitantes, tanto da família de Noé19como daqueles animais de toda a espécie.20Noé construiu um altar e sacrificou nele alguns dos animais que o SENHOR lhe tinha indicado, como holocausto.21O SENHOR ficou satisfeito com esse sacrifício e disse: “Nunca mais voltarei a amaldiçoar a Terra, destruindo assim tudo o que vive, ainda que a inclinação do ser humano seja sempre para o mal, mesmo desde a sua infância, e ainda que ele continue sempre a praticar o mal.22Enquanto a Terra durar, sempre há de haver tempo de sementeiras e de colheitas, frio e calor, inverno e verão, tal como há dia e noite.”
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; 1 Sm 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. (2 Rs 19:37; Is 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; Sl 58:3; Is 54:9; Ez 16:19; Ez 20:41; Mt 15:19; Rm 1:21; 2 Co 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)