Genesis 6
1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
Cumque cœpissent homines multiplicari super terram, et filias procreassent,
2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
videntes filii Dei filias hominum quod essent pulchræ, acceperunt sibi uxores ex omnibus, quas elegerant.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
Dixitque Deus: Non permanebit spiritus meus in homine in æternum, quia caro est: eruntque dies illius centum viginti annorum.
4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
Gigantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis. Postquam enim ingressi sunt filii Dei ad filias hominum, illæque genuerunt, isti sunt potentes a sæculo viri famosi.
5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
Videns autem Deus quod multa malitia hominum esset in terra, et cuncta cogitatio cordis intenta esset ad malum omni tempore,
6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
pœnituit eum quod hominum fecisset in terra. Et tactus dolore cordis intrinsecus,
7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
delebo, inquit, hominem, quem creavi, a facie terræ, ab homine usque ad animantia, a reptili usque ad volucres cæli. Pœnitet enim me fecisse eos.
8 But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
Noe vero invenit gratiam coram Domino.
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
Hæ sunt generationes Noe: Noe vir iustus atque perfectus fuit in generationibus suis, cum Deo ambulavit.
10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Et genuit tres filios, Sem, Cham et Iapheth.
11 And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
Corrupta est autem terra coram Deo, et repleta est iniquitate.
12 And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
Cumque vidisset Deus terram esse corruptam, (omnis quippe caro corruperat viam suam super terram)
13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
dixit ad Noe: Finis universæ carnis venit coram me: repleta est terra iniquitate a facie eorum, et ego disperdam eos cum terra.
14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
Fac tibi arcam de lignis lævigatis: mansiunculas in arca facies, et bitumine linies intrinsecus, et extrinsecus.
15 And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
Et sic facies eam: Trecentorum cubitorum erit longitudo arcæ, quinquaginta cubitorum latitudo, et triginta cubitorum altitudo illius.
16 You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.
Fenestram in arca facies, et in cubito consummabis summitatem eius: ostium autem arcæ pones ex latere: deorsum, cœnacula, et tristega facies in ea.
17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
Ecce ego adducam aquas diluvii super terram, ut interficiam omnem carnem, in qua spiritus vitæ est subter cælum: Universa quæ in terra sunt, consumentur.
18 But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Ponamque fœdus meum tecum: et ingredieris arcam tu et filii tui, uxor tua, et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
19 And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.
Et ex cunctis animantibus universæ carnis bina induces in arcam, ut vivant tecum: masculini sexus et feminini.
20 Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
De volucribus iuxta genus suum, et de iumentis in genere suo, et ex omni reptili terræ secundum genus suum: bina de omnibus ingredientur tecum, ut possint vivere.
21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
Tolles igitur tecum ex omnibus escis, quæ mandi possunt, et comportabis apud te: et erunt tam tibi, quam illis in cibum.
22 And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
Fecit igitur Noe omnia, quæ præceperat illi Deus.
The World is Destroyed by Water
