Genesis 8 – NIV & BPH

New International Version

Genesis 8:1-22

1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

15Then God said to Noah, 16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

18So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though8:21 Or humans, for every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

22“As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never cease.”

Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

1. Mosebog 8:1-22

En ny begyndelse

1-2Men Gud glemte ikke Noa og dyrene i arken. Han standsede vandstrømmen fra jordens indre og lukkede himlens sluser, så styrtregnen holdt op. Samtidig sendte han en vind, så vandet begyndte at synke. 3Vandet sank lidt efter lidt, og efter at arken i 150 dage havde været prisgivet vandmasserne, 4gik den på grund i Ararats bjerge. Det skete den 17. dag i den syvende måned. 5Vandet fortsatte langsomt med at synke. Først i den tiende måned kom bjergtinderne til syne.

6Noa ventede i endnu 40 dage. Derefter åbnede han en luge 7og sendte en ravn af sted. Ravnen kom ikke tilbage, men fløj omkring, indtil vandet var borte fra jorden. 8Derefter sendte Noa en due af sted for at se, om den kunne finde tørt land, 9men duen fandt ingen steder at lande. Vandet stod endnu for højt, så den vendte tilbage til arken. Noa rakte hånden ud og tog duen ind igen.

10Syv dage senere sendte Noa duen af sted for anden gang, 11og denne gang vendte den tilbage ved aftenstid med et frisk olivenblad i næbbet. Så var Noa klar over, at jorden var ved at blive tør. 12En uge senere sendte han duen af sted igen, og denne gang vendte den ikke tilbage.

13På den første dag i den første måned i det år, Noa fyldte 601 år, fjernede han noget af arkens tag og så, at det meste af vandet var væk. 14Men først to måneder senere var jorden tilstrækkelig tør, så de kunne gå ud.

15Så sagde Gud til Noa: 16„Gå ud af arken med din kone, dine sønner og deres koner 17og tag alle fuglene og dyrene med dig, så de kan formere sig og sprede sig over jorden.” 18Noa forlod da arken sammen med sin kone, sine sønner og deres koner. 19Og alle dyrene forlod arken parvis.

20Derpå byggede Noa et alter og ofrede nogle af de rene8,20 De rene dyr er dem, der kan bruges til ofringer og mad. dyr og fugle til Herren. 21Brændofferet behagede Herren, og han sagde til sig selv: „Jeg vil aldrig mere forbande jorden på grund af menneskene, selvom deres tanker er onde fra ungdommen af. Jeg vil aldrig mere udslette alt liv på jorden. 22Så længe jorden står, skal forår og efterår, kulde og varme, sommer og vinter, dag og nat ikke ophøre.”