Genesis 8

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1 and then God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside.	1 Recordatus autem Deus Noe cunctorumque animantium et omnium iumentorum, quae erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutae sunt aquae.
2 The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.	2 Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi et cataractae caeli, et prohibitae sunt pluviae de caelo.
3 Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished	3 Reversaeque sunt aquae de terra euntes et redeuntes et coeperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.
4 that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.	4 Requievitque arca mense septimo, decima septima die mensis super montes Ararat.
5 The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.	5 At vero aquae ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem; decimo enim mense, prima die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark,	6 Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noe fenestram arcae, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum;
7 and he sent out a raven, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth.	7 qui egrediebatur exiens et rediens, donec siccarentur aquae super terram.
8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.	8 Emisit quoque columbam a se, ut videret si iam cessassent aquae super faciem terrae.
9 But the dove could find no place to alight and perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water all over the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark.	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.
10 He waited seven days more and again sent the dove out from the ark.	10 Exspectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis, rursum dimisit columbam ex arca.
11 In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had lessened on the earth.	11 At illa venit ad eum ad vesperam portans ramum olivae virentibus foliis in ore suo. Intellexit ergo Noe quod cessassent aquae super terram.
12 He waited still another seven days and then released the dove once more; and this time it did not come back.	12 Exspectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies; et emisit columbam, quae non est reversa ultra ad eum.
13 In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water began to dry up on the earth. Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was drying up.	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.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.	14 Mense secundo, septima et vicesima die mensis, arefacta est terra.
15 Then God said to Noah:	15 Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe dicens:
16 "Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.	16 “Egredere de arca tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you--all bodily creatures, be they birds or animals or creeping things of the earth-and let them abound on the earth, breeding and multiplying on it."	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”.
18 So Noah came out, together with his wife and his sons and his sons' wives;	18 Egressus est ergo Noe et filii eius, uxor illius et uxores filiorum eius cum eo.
19 and all the animals, wild and tame, all the birds, and all the creeping creatures of the earth left the ark, one kind after another.	19 Sed et omnia animantia, iumenta, volatilia et reptilia, quae reptant super terram, secundum genus suum egressa sunt de arca.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered holocausts on the altar.	20 Aedificavit autem Noe altare Domino; et tollens de cunctis pecoribus mundis et volucribus mundis obtulit holocausta super altare.
21 When the LORD smelled the sweet odor, he said to himself: "Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the desires of man's heart are evil from the start; nor will I ever again strike down all living beings, as I have done.	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.
22 As long as the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."	22 Cunctis diebus terrae, sementis et messis, frigus et aestus, aestas et hiems, dies et nox non requiescent”.