【Genesis 8:10, 11 李杜圣经札记】

10 他又等了七天，再把鸽子从方舟放出去。 

11 到了晚上，鸽子回到他那里，嘴里叼着一个新拧下来的橄榄叶子，挪亚就知道地上的水退了。

ERV：

10 After seven days Noah again sent out the dove. 

11 And that afternoon the dove came back to Noah. The dove had a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. This was a sign to show Noah that there was dry ground on the earth. 

NIV:

10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 

11 When 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.

点评：

今天这两句，和合本中译不及文理版的文言：“又待七日、复放鸽出。薄暮鸽归、口衔橄榄新叶。”

英文，我喜欢NIV版本里的这句“there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf”。“in its beak”，作为插入语，嵌入“there be”的句型里，让句子有顿挫感，突出了后面的“橄榄叶”。

橄榄枝，《圣经》里视为大地复苏的标志，后来被人们当做和平的象征。

我觉得，也许上帝选择了橄榄树，让它在水下存活，就像选择各类动物一公一母，进入诺亚方舟一样，作为上帝宽恕人类，与人类和解的象征吧。