Genesis 8

1 Recordatus autem Deus Noe, cunctorumque animantium, et omnium iumentorum, quæ erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutæ sunt aquæ.

And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

2 Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractæ cæli: et prohibitæ sunt pluviæ de cælo.

and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.

3 Reversæque sunt aquæ de terra euntes et redeuntes: et cœperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.

And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

4 Requievitque arca mense septimo, vigesimo septimo die mensis super montes Armeniæ.

And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

5 At vero aquæ ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem: decimo enim mense, primo die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.

and the waters have been going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the heads of the mountains appeared.

6 Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noe fenestram arcæ, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum:

And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,

7 qui egrediebatur, et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aquæ super terram.

and he sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.

8 Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si iam cessassent aquæ super faciem terræ.

And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

9 Quæ cum non invenisset ubi requiesceret pes eius, reversa est ad eum in arcam: aquæ enim erant super universam terram: extenditque manum, et apprehensam intulit in arcam.

and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the Ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the Ark.

10 Expectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis, rursum dimisit columbam ex arca.

And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;

11 At illa venit ad eum ad vesperam, portans ramum olivæ virentibus foliis in ore suo. Intellexit ergo Noe quod cessassent aquæ super terram.

and the dove comes to him at evening, and behold, an olive leaf [is] torn off in her mouth; and Noah knows that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

12 Expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies: et emisit columbam, quæ non est reversa ultra ad eum.

And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.

13 Igitur sexcentesimo primo anno, primo mense, prima die mensis imminutæ sunt aquæ super terram: et aperiens Noe tectum arcæ, aspexit, viditque quod exiccata esset superficies terræ.

And it comes to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turns aside the covering of the Ark, and looks, and behold, the face of the ground has been dried.

14 Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become dry.

15 Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe, dicens:

And God speaks to Noah, saying, “Go out from the Ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you;

16 Egredere de arca, tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.

every living thing that [is] with you, of all flesh, among bird, and among livestock, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with you;

17 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.

and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”

18 Egressus est ergo Noe, et filii eius: uxor illius, et uxores filiorum eius cum eo.

And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;

19 Sed et omnia animantia, iumenta, et reptilia quæ reptant super terram secundum genus suum, egressa sunt de arca.

every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the Ark.

20 Ædificavit autem Noe altare Domino: et tollens de cunctis pecoribus et volucribus mundis, obtulit holocausta super altare.

And Noah builds an altar to YHWH, and takes from every clean beast and from every clean bird, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

21 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.

and YHWH smells the refreshing fragrance, and YHWH says to His heart, “I do not continue to disfavor the ground because of man anymore, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I do not continue to strike all living anymore, as I have done;

22 Cunctis diebus terræ, sementis et messis, frigus et æstus, æstas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.

during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark