Genesis 6
1 Cumque cœpissent homines multiplicari super terram, et filias procreassent,
And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 videntes filii Dei filias hominum quod essent pulchræ, acceperunt sibi uxores ex omnibus, quas elegerant.
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
3 Dixitque Deus: Non permanebit spiritus meus in homine in æternum, quia caro est: eruntque dies illius centum viginti annorum.
And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
4 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.
Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
5 Videns autem Deus quod multa malitia hominum esset in terra, et cuncta cogitatio cordis intenta esset ad malum omni tempore,
And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
6 pœnituit eum quod hominum fecisset in terra. Et tactus dolore cordis intrinsecus,
It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
7 delebo, inquit, hominem, quem creavi, a facie terræ, ab homine usque ad animantia, a reptili usque ad volucres cæli. Pœnitet enim me fecisse eos.
He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 Noe vero invenit gratiam coram Domino.
But Noe found grace before the Lord.
9 Hæ sunt generationes Noe: Noe vir iustus atque perfectus fuit in generationibus suis, cum Deo ambulavit.
These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.
10 Et genuit tres filios, Sem, Cham et Iapheth.
And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
11 Corrupta est autem terra coram Deo, et repleta est iniquitate.
And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
12 Cumque vidisset Deus terram esse corruptam, (omnis quippe caro corruperat viam suam super terram)
And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth, )
13 dixit ad Noe: Finis universæ carnis venit coram me: repleta est terra iniquitate a facie eorum, et ego disperdam eos cum terra.
He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Fac tibi arcam de lignis lævigatis: mansiunculas in arca facies, et bitumine linies intrinsecus, et extrinsecus.
Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.
15 Et sic facies eam: Trecentorum cubitorum erit longitudo arcæ, quinquaginta cubitorum latitudo, et triginta cubitorum altitudo illius.
And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 Fenestram in arca facies, et in cubito consummabis summitatem eius: ostium autem arcæ pones ex latere: deorsum, cœnacula, et tristega facies in ea.
Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 Ecce ego adducam aquas diluvii super terram, ut interficiam omnem carnem, in qua spiritus vitæ est subter cælum: Universa quæ in terra sunt, consumentur.
Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.
18 Ponamque fœdus meum tecum: et ingredieris arcam tu et filii tui, uxor tua, et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
19 Et ex cunctis animantibus universæ carnis bina induces in arcam, ut vivant tecum: masculini sexus et feminini.
And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.
20 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.
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
21 Tolles igitur tecum ex omnibus escis, quæ mandi possunt, et comportabis apud te: et erunt tam tibi, quam illis in cibum.
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
22 Fecit igitur Noe omnia, quæ præceperat illi Deus.
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
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