Genesis 8
1 Recordatus autem Deus Noe, cunctorumque animantium, et omnium iumentorum, quae erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutae sunt aquae.
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractae caeli: et prohibitae sunt pluviae de caelo.
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 Reversaeque sunt aquae de terra euntes et redeuntes: et coeperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 Requievitque arca mense septimo, vigesimo septimo die mensis super montes Armeniae.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 At vero aquae ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem: decimo enim mense, primo die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.
And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noe fenestram arcae, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum:
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 qui egrediebatur, et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aquae super terram.
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8 Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si iam cessassent aquae super faciem terrae.
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 Quae cum non invenisset ubi requiesceret pes eius, reversa est ad eum in arcam: aquae enim erant super universam terram: extenditque manum suam, et apprehensam intulit in arcam.
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
10 Expectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis, rursum dimisit columbam ex arca.
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 At illa venit ad eum ad vesperam, portans ramum olivae virentibus foliis in ore suo. intellexit ergo Noe quod cessassent aquae super terram.
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12 Expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies: et emisit columbam, quae non est reversa ultra ad eum.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
13 Igitur sexcentesimo primo anno, primo mense, prima die mensis imminutae sunt aquae super terram: et aperiens Noe tectum arcae, aspexit, viditque quod exiccata esset superficies terrae.
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
15 Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe, dicens:
Then God said to Noah,
16 Egredere de arca, tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
17 Cuncta animantia, quae sunt apud te, ex omni carne, tam in volatilibus quam in bestiis et universis reptilibus, quae reptant super terram, educ tecum, et ingredimini super terram: crescite et multiplicamini super eam.
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
18 Egressus est ergo Noe, et filii eius: uxor illius, et uxores filiorum eius cum eo.
So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 Sed et omnia animantia, iumenta, et reptilia quae reptant super terram secundum genus suum, egressa sunt de arca.
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
20 Aedificavit autem Noe altare Domino: et tollens de cunctis pecoribus et volucribus mundis, obtulit holocausta super altare.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 Odoratusque est Dominus odorem suavitatis, et ait: Nequaquam ultra maledicam terrae propter homines: sensus enim et cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona sunt ab adolescentia sua: non igitur ultra percutiam omnem animam viventem sicut feci.
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
22 Cunctis diebus terrae, sementis et messis, frigus et aestus, aestas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
