1 Lembrou-se Deus de Noé e de todos os animais selváticos e de todos os animais domésticos que com ele estavam na arca; Deus fez soprar um vento sobre a terra, e baixaram as águas. 2 Fecharam-se as fontes do abismo e também as comportas dos céus, e a copiosa chuva dos céus se deteve. 3 As águas iam-se escoando continuamente de sobre a terra e minguaram ao cabo de cento e cinquenta dias. 4 No dia dezessete do sétimo mês, a arca repousou sobre as montanhas de Ararate. 5 E as águas foram minguando até ao décimo mês, em cujo primeiro dia apareceram os cimos dos montes.

6 Ao cabo de quarenta dias, abriu Noé a janela que fizera na arca 7 e soltou um corvo, o qual, tendo saído, ia e voltava, até que se secaram as águas de sobre a terra. 8 Depois, soltou uma pomba para ver se as águas teriam já minguado da superfície da terra; 9 mas a pomba, não achando onde pousar o pé, tornou a ele para a arca; porque as águas cobriam ainda a terra. Noé, estendendo a mão, tomou-a e a recolheu consigo na arca. 10 Esperou ainda outros sete dias e de novo soltou a pomba fora da arca. 11 À tarde, ela voltou a ele; trazia no bico uma folha nova de oliveira; assim entendeu Noé que as águas tinham minguado de sobre a terra. 12 Então, esperou ainda mais sete dias e soltou a pomba; ela, porém, já não tornou a ele.

13 Sucedeu que, no primeiro dia do primeiro mês, do ano seiscentos e um, as águas se secaram de sobre a terra. Então, Noé removeu a cobertura da arca e olhou, e eis que o solo estava enxuto. 14 E, aos vinte e sete dias do segundo mês, a terra estava seca. 15 Então, disse Deus a Noé: 16 Sai da arca, e, contigo, tua mulher, e teus filhos, e as mulheres de teus filhos. 17 Os animais que estão contigo, de toda carne, tanto aves como gado, e todo réptil que rasteja sobre a terra, faze sair a todos, para que povoem a terra, sejam fecundos e nela se multipliquem. 18 Saiu, pois, Noé, com seus filhos, sua mulher e as mulheres de seus filhos. 19 E também saíram da arca todos os animais, todos os répteis, todas as aves e tudo o que se move sobre a terra, segundo as suas famílias.

20 Levantou Noé um altar ao Senhor e, tomando de animais limpos e de aves limpas, ofereceu holocaustos sobre o altar. 21 E o Senhor aspirou o suave cheiro e disse consigo mesmo: Não tornarei a amaldiçoar a terra por causa do homem, porque é mau o desígnio íntimo do homem desde a sua mocidade; nem tornarei a ferir todo vivente, como fiz. 22 Enquanto durar a terra, não deixará de haver sementeira e ceifa, frio e calor, verão e inverno, dia e noite.

1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

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

7 And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dried.

14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

15 And God spoke unto Noah, saying:

16 'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may swarm in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.'

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families; went forth out of the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

21 And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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