## Onkelos Genesis Chapter 8

###### Onkelos Genesis 8:1
[Onkelos Genesis 8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:1)

וּדְכִיר יְיָ יָת נֹחַ וְיָת כָּל חַיְתָא וְיָת כָּל בְּעִירָא דִּי עִמֵּיהּ בְּתֵבוֹתָא וְאַעְבַּר יְיָ רוּחָא עַל אַרְעָא וְנָחוּ מַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Elohim remembered Noach, and all the beasts and all the animals that were with him in the ark. Elohim caused a wind to blow over the earth and the water subsided.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:2
[Onkelos Genesis 8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:2)

וְאִסְתְּכָרוּ מַבּוּעֵי תְהוֹמָא וְכַוֵּי שְׁמַיָּא וְאִתְכְּלִי מִטְרָא מִן שְׁמַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The wellsprings of the deep were closed, and [so were] the windows of the heavens, and the downpour from the heavens was withheld.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:3
[Onkelos Genesis 8:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:3)

וְתָבוּ מַיָּא מֵעַל אַרְעָא אָזְלִין וְתָיְבִין וַחֲסָרוּ מַיָּא מִסּוֹף מְאָה וְחַמְשִׁין יוֹמִין:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The water receded from the earth continually, and the waters diminished at the end of one hundred and fifty days.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:4
[Onkelos Genesis 8:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:4)

וְנָחַת תֵּבוֹתָא בְּיַרְחָא שְׁבִיעָאָה בְּשִׁבְעַת עֲשַׂר יוֹמָא לְיַרְחָא עַל טוּרֵי **קַרְדּוּ**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat [**Kardu**].


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:5
[Onkelos Genesis 8:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:5)

וּמַיָּא הֲווֹ אָזְלִין וְחָסְרִין עַד יַרְחָא עֲשִׂירָאָה בַּעֲשִׂירָאָה בְּחַד לְיַרְחָא אִתְחֲזִיאוּ רֵישֵׁי טוּרַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month. In the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the mountaintops became visible.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:6
[Onkelos Genesis 8:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:6)

וַהֲוָה מִסּוֹף אַרְבְּעִין יוֹמִין וּפְתַח נֹחַ יָת כַּוַּת תֵּבוֹתָא דִּי עֲבָד:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
At the end of forty days, Noach opened the window of the ark which he had made.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:7
[Onkelos Genesis 8:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:7)

וְשַׁלַּח יָת עָרְבָּא וּנְפַק מִפַּק וְתַיִב עַד דְּיַבִּישׁוּ מַיָּא מֵעַל אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
He sent out the raven, and it went out, going to and fro until the water on the land dried up.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:8
[Onkelos Genesis 8:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:8)

וְשַׁלַּח יָת יוֹנָה מִלְּוָתֵיהּ לְמֶחֱזֵי הֲקַלִּיאוּ מַיָּא מֵעַל אַפֵּי אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
He [then] sent the dove to see if the water had subsided from the surface of the ground.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:9
[Onkelos Genesis 8:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:9)

וְלָא אַשְׁכַּחַת יוֹנָה מְנַח לְפַרְסַת רַגְלַהּ וְתָבַת לְוָתֵיהּ לְתֵבוֹתָא אֲרֵי מַיָּא עַל אַפֵּי כָל אַרְעָא וְאוֹשִׁיט יְדֵיהּ וְנָסְבַהּ וְאָעֵיל יָתַהּ לְוָתֵיהּ לְתֵבוֹתָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The dove found no [place to] rest her foot. She returned to him into the ark, for the water was upon the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand and took her and brought her to him, into the ark.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:10
[Onkelos Genesis 8:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:10)

וְאוֹרִיךְ עוֹד שַׁבְעָא יוֹמִין אָחֳרָנִין וְאוֹסֵיף שַׁלַּח יָת יוֹנָה מִן תֵּבוֹתָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
He waited another seven days, and once again sent the dove out of the ark.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:11
[Onkelos Genesis 8:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:11)

וַאֲתַת לְוָתֵיהּ יוֹנָה לְעִדַּן רַמְשָׁא וְהָא טְרַף זֵיתָא תְּבִיר **נָחִית** בְּפוּמַהּ וִידַע נֹחַ אֲרֵי קַלִּיאוּ מַיָא מֵעַל אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, [**lying**] in her mouth was a torn off olive leaf. Noach knew then that the water had subsided from the earth.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:12
[Onkelos Genesis 8:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:12)

וְאוֹרִיךְ עוֹד שַׁבְעָה יוֹמִין אָחֳרָנִין וְשַׁלַּח יָת יוֹנָה וְלָא אוֹסֵיפַת לְמִתּוּב לְוָתֵיהּ עוֹד:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
He waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove; it did not return to him again.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:13
[Onkelos Genesis 8:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:13)

וַהֲוָה בְּשִׁתְּ מְאָה וְחַד שְׁנִין בְּקַדְמָאָה בְּחַד לְיַרְחָא נְגוּבוּ מַיָּא מֵעַל אַרְעָא וְאַעְדִּי נֹחַ יָת חוֹפָאָה דְּתֵבוֹתָא וַחֲזָא וְהָא נְגוּבוּ אַפֵּי אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
It was in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the water on earth [began] to dry. Noach removed the covering of the ark. He looked and behold the surface of the ground had dried.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:14
[Onkelos Genesis 8:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:14)

וּבְיַרְחָא תִּנְיָנָא בְּעַשְׂרִין וְשַׁבְעָא יוֹמָא לְיַרְחָא יַבִּישַׁת אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
In the second month, on the twenty seventh day of the month, the earth was [completely] dry.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:15
[Onkelos Genesis 8:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:15)

וּמַלֵּיל יְיָ **עִם** נֹחַ לְמֵימָר:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Elohim spoke to [**with**] Noach, saying,


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:16
[Onkelos Genesis 8:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:16)

פּוּק מִן תֵּבוֹתָא אַתְּ וְאִתְּתָךְ וּבְנָךְ וּנְשֵׁי בְנָךְ עִמָּךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Depart from the ark, yourself and your wife, your sons, and your son’s wives with you.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:17
[Onkelos Genesis 8:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:17)

כָּל חַיְתָא דִּעִמָּךְ מִכָּל בִּשְׂרָא בְּעוֹפָא וּבִבְעִירָא וּבְכָל רִחֲשָׁא דְּרָחֵשׁ עַל אַרְעָא אַפֵּיק עִמָּךְ וְיִתְיַלְּדוּן בְּאַרְעָא וְיִפְּשׁוּן וְיִסְגּוּן עַל אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, [including] birds, animals, every creeping creature that creeps on the earth, let them depart with you. Let them spread over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:18
[Onkelos Genesis 8:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:18)

וּנְפַק נֹחַ וּבְנוֹהִי וְאִתְּתֵיהּ וּנְשֵׁי בְנוֹהִי עִמֵּיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Noach departed [from the ark together with] his sons, his wife and son’s wives.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:19
[Onkelos Genesis 8:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:19)

כָּל חַיְתָא כָּל רִחֲשָׁא וְכָל עוֹפָא כֹּל דְּרָחֵשׁ עַל אַרְעָא לְזַרְעֲיָתְהוֹן נְפָקוּ מִן תֵּבוֹתָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Every living thing, every creeping creature, every bird, everything that creeps on the earth, departed from the ark according to their families.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:20
[Onkelos Genesis 8:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:20)

וּבְנָא נֹחַ מַדְבְּחָא **קֳדָם** יְיָ וּנְסִיב מִכֹּל בְּעִירָא דַכְיָא וּמִכֹּל עוֹפָא דְכֵי וְאַסֵּיק עֲלָוָן בְּמִדְבְּחָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Noach built an altar to [**before**] Adonoy, and took of every [ritually] clean animal and of every [ritually] clean bird, and brought up burnt-offerings on the altar.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:21
[Onkelos Genesis 8:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:21)

**וְקַבִּיל יְיָ בְּרַעֲוָא יָת קוּרְבָּנֵיהּ** וַאֲמַר יְיָ **בְּמֵימְרֵיהּ** לָא אוֹסֵף לְמֵילַט עוֹד יָת אַרְעָא בְּדִיל **חוֹבֵי** אֱנָשָׁא אֲרֵי יִצְרָא לִבָּא דֶאֱנָשָׁא בִּישׁ מִזְּעִירֵיהּ וְלָא אוֹסֵף עוֹד לְמִמְחֵי יָת כָּל דְּחַי כְּמָא דְעָבְדִית:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy smelled the pleasing fragrance, [**Adonoy accepted his offering with favor**] and Adonoy said in His heart [**with his Word**], Never again will I curse the ground because of [**the sins of**] man, for the inclination of man’s heart is evil from [the time of] his youth. I will never again smite every living thing as I have done.


###### Onkelos Genesis 8:22
[Onkelos Genesis 8:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Genesis/r/8:22)

עוֹד כָּל יוֹמֵי אַרְעָא זְרוֹעָא וַחֲצָדָא וְקוֹרָא וְחוֹמָא וְקַיְטָא וְסִתְוָא וִימָם וְלֵילְיָא לָא יִבְטְלוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
So long as the earth exists, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never be suspended.