Genesis 8
1 Recordatus autem Deus Noë, cunctorumque animantium, et omnium jumentorum, quæ erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutæ sunt aquæ.
And God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals, and all the tame animals, and all the flying creatures, and all the crawling creatures that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to recede.
2 Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractæ cæli: et prohibitæ sunt pluviæ de cælo.
And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 Reversæque sunt aquæ de terra euntes et redeuntes: et cœperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.
And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly.
4 Requievitque arca mense septimo, vigesimo septimo die mensis, super montes Armeniæ.
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ship came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 At vero aquæ ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem: decimo enim mense, primo die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.
The waters receded continually to the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noë fenestram arcæ, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum,
It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
7 qui egrediebatur, et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aquæ super terram.
and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8 Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si jam cessassent aquæ super faciem terræ.
Then he sent forth a dove from it, to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground,
9 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.
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
10 Expectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis, rursum dimisit columbam ex arca.
And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
11 At illa venit ad eum ad vesperam, portans ramum olivæ virentibus foliis in ore suo: intellexit ergo Noë quod cessassent aquæ super terram.
The dove came back to him at evening, and, look, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.
12 Expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies: et emisit columbam, quæ non est reversa ultra ad eum.
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
13 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.
And it happened in the six hundred first year of Noah's life, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters had dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ship and looked out. And look, the surface of the ground was dry.
14 Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Locutus est autem Deus ad Noë, dicens:
God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 Egredere de arca, tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives 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.
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, of flying creatures, and animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
18 Egressus est ergo Noë, et filii ejus: uxor illius, et uxores filiorum ejus cum eo.
And Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
19 Sed et omnia animantia, jumenta, et reptilia quæ reptant super terram, secundum genus suum, egressa sunt de arca.
And every wild animal, and every tame animal, and every flying creature, and every creature that crawls on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
20 Ædificavit autem Noë altare Domino: et tollens de cunctis pecoribus et volucribus mundis, obtulit holocausta super altare.
Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean flying creature, and offered burnt offerings 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 God smelled the pleasing aroma, and God said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of his heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
22 Cunctis diebus terræ, sementis et messis, frigus et æstus, æstas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
