Liber 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.

1. But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

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

2. the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

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

3. and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;

4. Requievitque arca mense septimo, decima septima die mensis super montes Ararat.

4. and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ar'arat.

5. At vero aquae ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem; decimo enim mense, prima die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.

5. And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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

6. At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

7. qui egrediebatur exiens et rediens, donec siccarentur aquae super terram.

7. and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8. Emisit quoque columbam a se, ut videret si iam cessassent aquae super faciem terrae.

8. Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from 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 et apprehensam intulit in arcam.

9. but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

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

10. He waited another seven days, and again he 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.

11. and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

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

12. Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

13. Igitur sescentesimo primo anno, primo mense, prima die mensis, siccatae sunt aquae super terram; et aperiens Noe tectum arcae, et ecce aspexit viditque quod exsiccata erat superficies terrae.

13. In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14. Mense secundo, septima et vicesima die mensis, arefacta est terra.

14. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15. Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe dicens:

15. Then God said to Noah,

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

16. "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

17. Cuncta animantia, quae sunt apud te ex omni carne, tam in volatilibus quam in pecoribus et in universis reptilibus, quae reptant super terram, educ tecum, ut pullulent super terram et crescant et multiplicentur super eam”.

17. Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh -- birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth -- that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."

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

18. So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

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

19. And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.

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

20. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21. Odoratusque est Dominus odorem suavitatis et locutus est Dominus ad cor suum: “Nequaquam ultra maledicam terrae propter homines, quia cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona est ab adulescentia sua. Non igitur ultra percutiam omnem animam viventem, sicut feci.

21. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

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

22. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."