1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.15 Then God said to Noah,16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you —the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground —so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds —everything that moves on land —came out of the ark, one kind after another.20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though "every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

1 Recordatus autem Deus No, cunctorumque animantium, et omnium jumentorum, qu erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminut sunt aqu. 2 Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataract cli : et prohibit sunt pluvi de clo. 3 Reversque sunt aqu de terra euntes et redeuntes : et cperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies. 4 Requievitque arca mense septimo, vigesimo septimo die mensis, super montes Armeni. 5 At vero aqu ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem : decimo enim mense, primo die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium. 6 Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens No fenestram arc, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum, 7 qui egrediebatur, et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aqu super terram. 8 Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si jam cessassent aqu super faciem terr. 9 Qu cum non invenisset ubi requiesceret pes ejus, reversa est ad eum in arcam : aqu enim erant super universam terram : extenditque manum, et apprehensam intulit in arcam. 10 Expectatis autem ultra septem diebus aliis, rursum dimisit columbam ex arca. 11 At illa venit ad eum ad vesperam, portans ramum oliv virentibus foliis in ore suo : intellexit ergo No quod cessassent aqu super terram. 12 Expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies : et emisit columbam, qu non est reversa ultra ad eum. 13 Igitur sexcentesimo primo anno, primo mense, prima die mensis, imminut sunt aqu super terram : et aperiens No tectum arc, aspexit, viditque quod exsiccata esset superficies terr. 14 Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.15 Locutus est autem Deus ad No, dicens : 16 Egredere de arca, tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum. 17 Cuncta animantia, qu sunt apud te, ex omni carne, tam in volatilibus quam in bestiis et universis reptilibus, qu reptant super terram, educ tecum, et ingredimini super terram : crescite et multiplicamini super eam. 18 Egressus est ergo No, et filii ejus : uxor illius, et uxores filiorum ejus cum eo. 19 Sed et omnia animantia, jumenta, et reptilia qu reptant super terram, secundum genus suum, egressa sunt de arca. 20 dificavit autem No altare Domino : et tollens de cunctis pecoribus et volucribus mundis, obtulit holocausta super altare. 21 Odoratusque est Dominus odorem suavitatis, et ait : Nequaquam ultra maledicam terr propter homines : sensus enim et cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona sunt ab adolescentia sua : non igitur ultra percutiam omnem animam viventem sicut feci. 22 Cunctis diebus terr, sementis et messis, frigus et stus, stas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.