【Genesis 8:12,13,14 李杜圣经札记】

12 他又等了七天，放出鸽子去，鸽子就不再回来了。 

13 到挪亚六百零一岁，正月初一日，地上的水都干了。挪亚撤去方舟的盖观看，便见地面上干了。 

14 到了二月二十七日，地就都干了。

ERV:

12 Seven days later Noah sent the dove out again. But this time the dove didn’t come back.

13 After that Noah opened the door of the boat. He looked and saw that the ground was dry. This was the first day of the first month of the year. He was 601 years old. 

14 By the 27th day of the second month, the ground was completely dry.

NIV:

12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. 

13 By 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. 

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 

点评：

这一次，鸽子一去不复返，许是大水退却，已寻到栖身之处。方舟上芸芸众生的欣喜，可以想见。大家似乎忽略了船上那只鸽子的伴侣。本是同林鸟，奈何各自飞？诺亚方舟皆大欢喜的结局里，藏着一只郁郁寡欢的鸽子。

关于诺亚的年龄，我此前提过，一是《圣经》故事源自远古的神话；二则当年的时间计量单位与现今不同，具体换算也许已经失传，不能以现代理性来看待这些数据，觉得荒诞不经。