Genesis 8
1 But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop.
Recordatus autem Deus Noë, cunctorumque animantium, et omnium jumentorum, quæ erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutæ sunt aquæ.
2 The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped.
Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractæ cæli: et prohibitæ sunt pluviæ de cælo.
3 The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began
Reversæque sunt aquæ de terra euntes et redeuntes: et cœperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.
4 the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
Requievitque arca mense septimo, vigesimo septimo die mensis, super montes Armeniæ.
5 The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen.
At vero aquæ ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem: decimo enim mense, primo die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.
6 Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,
Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noë fenestram arcæ, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum,
7 and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.
qui egrediebatur, et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aquæ super terram.
8 Then he sent a dove out to see if the waters had gone down enough to expose dry ground.
Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si jam cessassent aquæ super faciem terræ.
9 But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out his hand, picked up the dove, and took it back into the ark with him.
Quæ cum non invenisset ubi requiesceret pes ejus, reversa est ad eum in arcam: aquæ enim erant super universam terram: extenditque manum, et apprehensam intulit in arcam.
10 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again.
Expectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis, rursum dimisit columbam ex arca.
11 When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the floodwaters were mainly gone from the earth.
At illa venit ad eum ad vesperam, portans ramum olivæ virentibus foliis in ore suo: intellexit ergo Noë quod cessassent aquæ super terram.
12 Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to him.
Expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies: et emisit columbam, quæ non est reversa ultra ad eum.
13 By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out.
Igitur sexcentesimo primo anno, primo mense, prima die mensis, imminutæ sunt aquæ super terram: et aperiens Noë tectum arcæ, aspexit, viditque quod exsiccata esset superficies terræ.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.
15 Then God told Noah,
Locutus est autem Deus ad Noë, dicens:
16 “Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.
Egredere de arca, tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
17 Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.”
Cuncta animantia, quæ sunt apud te, ex omni carne, tam in volatilibus quam in bestiis et universis reptilibus, quæ reptant super terram, educ tecum, et ingredimini super terram: crescite et multiplicamini super eam.
18 So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark.
Egressus est ergo Noë, et filii ejus: uxor illius, et uxores filiorum ejus cum eo.
19 All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on land—also left, each kind leaving together.
Sed et omnia animantia, jumenta, et reptilia quæ reptant super terram, secundum genus suum, egressa sunt de arca.
20 Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering.
Ædificavit autem Noë altare Domino: et tollens de cunctis pecoribus et volucribus mundis, obtulit holocausta super altare.
21 The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.
Odoratusque est Dominus odorem suavitatis, et ait: Nequaquam ultra maledicam terræ propter homines: sensus enim et cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona sunt ab adolescentia sua: non igitur ultra percutiam omnem animam viventem sicut feci.
22 As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”
Cunctis diebus terræ, sementis et messis, frigus et æstus, æstas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
