Arca de noé
A arca de Noé é história de salvação e fidelidade. Deus instruiu Noé a construir a arca para salvar sua família e os animais do dilúvio — exemplo supremo de obediência e fé.
he said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; the earth is filled with wickedness of the face of them, and I shall destroy them with the earth.
Make thou to thee a ship of wood hewn and planed; thou shalt make dwelling places in the ship, and thou shalt anoint it with pitch within and withoutforth.
And so thou shalt make it. The length of the ship shall be of three hundred cubits, the breadth shall be of fifty cubits, and the highness thereof shall be of thirty cubits.
Thou shalt make a window in the ship, and thou shalt end the highness thereof in a cubit; soothly thou shalt set the door of the ship in the side beneath; thou shalt make solars or upper rooms, and places of three chambers in the ship.
Also the Lord said to Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the ship, for I saw thee alone were just before me in this generation.
And Noah entered into the ship, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons, entered with him, for the waters of the great flood.
And of living beasts clean and unclean, and of [the] birds of heaven, and of each beast which is moved on [the] earth,
by twain and by twain [or two and two], male and female entered to Noah into the ship, as the Lord commanded to Noah.
And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood flowed on [the] earth.
And those that entered, entered male and female of each flesh, as God commanded to him. And the Lord enclosed him from withoutforth.
And the great flood was made forty days and forty nights on [the] earth, and the waters were multiplied, and raised the ship on high from the earth.
The waters flowed greatly, and filled all things in the face of the earth. Forsooth the ship was borne on the waters.
And God did away all the substance that was on [the] earth, from man till to beast, as well a creeping beast, as the birds of heaven; and those [or they] were done away from [the] earth. Forsooth Noah dwelled alone, and they that were with him in the ship.
And [the] waters turned again from off the earth, and went again, and began to be decreased, or assuaged, after an hundred and fifty days.
And the ship rested in the seventh month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, on the hills [or mounts] of Armenia.
And when forty days had passed, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
and sent out a crow, which went out, and turned not again till the waters were dried on [the] earth.
Also Noah sent out a culver after him, to see if the waters had ceased then on the face of the earth;
and when the culver found not where her foot should rest, she turned again to him into the ship, for the waters were on all [the] earth; and Noah held forth his hand, and brought the culver taken into the ship.
Soothly when other seven days were abided afterward, again he sent out a culver from the ship;
and she came to him at eventide, and bare in her mouth a branch of an olive tree with green leaves. There-fore Noah understood that the waters had ceased or abated on earth;
and nevertheless he abode seven other days, and sent out a culver, which turned not again to him.
Therefore in the six hundred and one year of the life of Noah, in the first month, in the first day of the month, [the] waters were decreased on earth; and Noah opened the roof of the ship, and beheld, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
Soothly the Lord spake to Noah; and said,
Go out of the ship, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee;
and lead out with thee all living beasts that be with thee of each flesh, as well in volatiles, as in unreason-able beasts, and all reptiles or all creeping beasts that creep on [the] earth; and enter ye on the earth, increase ye, and be ye multiplied on earth.
Also the Lord said these things to Noah, and to his sons with him,
Lo! I shall make my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
and to each living soul which is with you, as well in birds as in work beasts and small beasts of [the] earth, and to all things that went out of the ship, and to all unreasonable beasts of [the] earth.
I shall make my covenant with you, and each flesh shall no more be slain of the waters of the great flood, neither the great flood destroying all [the] earth shall be any more.
I shall set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of bond of peace between me and [the] earth;
By faith Noah dreaded, through answer taken of these things that yet were not seen, and shaped a ship [or an ark] into the health of his house; by which he condemned the world, and is ordained heir of rightwiseness, which is by faith.
which were sometime unbelieve-ful, when they abided the patience of God in the days of Noah, when the ship [or the ark] was made, in which a few, that is to say, eight souls were made safe by water.
And so baptism of like form maketh us safe; not the putting away of the filths of flesh, but the asking of a good conscience in God, by the again-rising of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that is in the right half of God, and swalloweth death, that we should be made heirs of everlasting life. He went into heaven, and angels, and powers, and virtues be made subject to him.
But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of man’s Son.
For as in the days before the great flood, they were eating and drinking, wedding and taking to wedding, till that day, that Noah entered into the ship;
and they knew not, till the great flood came, and took all men, so shall be the coming of man’s Son.
Then twain shall be in a field, one shall be taken, and the other left;
two women shall be grinding in a quern [or mill], one shall be taken, and the other left; twain in a bed, the one shall be taken, and the other left.