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.

And God remembered Noah, and all the wild—beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, —and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

2 Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractae caeli: et prohibitae sunt pluviae de caelo.

and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, —and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

3 Reversaeque sunt aquae de terra euntes et redeuntes: et coeperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.

and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, —and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

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

And the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, —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.

But, the waters went on decreasing, until the tenth month, —in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, were seen the tops of the mountains.

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

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made;

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

and sent forth a raven, —and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters from off the earth.

8 Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si iam cessassent aquae super faciem terrae.

And he sent forth a dove from him, —to see whether the waters had abated, from off the face 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 resting-place for the sole of her foot so she returned unto him into the ark, for, waters, were on the face of all the earth; and he put forth his hand and took her, and brought her in unto him, into the ark.

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

Then stayed he yet seven days more, —and, again sent forth the dove out of 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 the dove came in unto him at eventide, and lo! a newly sprouted olive-leaf, in her mouth, —so Noah knew that the waters had abated from off the earth.

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

And he stayed yet seven days more, —and sent forth the dove, but she returned not again unto him any more.

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.

So it came to pass in the six hundred and first year at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from off the earth, —and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and lo! the face of the ground was 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, was the earth dry.

15 Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe, dicens:

So then, God spake to Noah, saying:

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

Come forth out of the ark, —thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

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.

All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh among birds, and among beasts, and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring forth with thee, —and they shall swarm in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply, on the earth.

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

So Noah came forth, —and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

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

All the living creatures, all that move along, and all birds, and all that moveth along over the earth—by their families, came forth out of the ark.

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

And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh, —and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up 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.

And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man’s sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, —neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, as I have done.

22 Cunctis diebus terrae, sementis et messis, frigus et aestus, aestas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.

During all the days of the earth, seedtime 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