1 Finalmente chegou o dia em que o Senhor disse a Noé: Entra na embarcação com toda a tua família, porque, de toda a humanidade, tu és o único ser recto que encontrei. Faz também entrar os bichos, dois de cada, macho e fêmea, excepto daquelas espécies que escolhi para serem comidos como sacrifício; desses toma sete pares de cada espécie.3 Das aves farás entrar igualmente sete pares reprodutores. Assim se poderá manter viva cada espécie de vida após a cheia.4 E daqui a uma semana começarei a fazer chover durante quarenta dias e noites, e tudo quanto criei com vida morrerá.5 Noé fez tudo segundo o que Deus lhe tinha ordenado. Era da idade de 600 anos quando o dilúvio começou. Entrou então na embarcação com a sua mulher, filhos e noras, para escaparem àquela imensa cheia. Com ele estava lá dentro igualmente toda a variedade de vida animal, tanto os que podiam ser comidos em sacrifício como os que não, tanto de aves como de animais terrestres. Estavam ali pares, macho e fêmea, tal como Deus mandara.10 Portanto, passada aquela semana, quando Noé tinha precisamente 600 anos, dois meses e dezassete dias de idade, começou a chover com uma abundância nunca vista. Era como se os reservatórios dos abismos se tivessem aberto juntamente com todas as comportas do céu. E assim esteve a chover durante quarenta dias e noites. Mas Noé, no próprio dia em que isso começou tinha entrado para aquela construção flutuante com a mulher, e os filhos Sem, Cam e Jafete, e estes com as mulheres. Com eles tinham-se também abrigado todas as espécies de bichos, domésticos e selvagens, desde as aves até aos que rastejam no solo. Estavam dois a dois, casais reprodutores, conforme o que Deus tinha indicado. Então o Senhor fechou, ele mesmo, a porta por fora.17 Durante quarenta dias aquela enchente enorme cobriu a terra toda, primeiro as planícies, levantando a construção flutuante. Depois as águas continuaram a subir, sempre cada vez mais, de forma que a embarcação já flutuava em segurança a muitos metros acima da terra. Até que finalmente, como o dilúvio não parava, mesmo as montanhas mais altas ficaram cobertas, não se vendo, debaixo do céu, um só cimo de monte que não estivesse sob as águas, as quais os ultrapassavam em uns 7 metros ou mais.21 E morreu todo o que tinha vida sobre a terra - aves, quadrúpedes, répteis, e, é claro, todo o ser humano. Enfim, tudo o que respirava o oxigénio do ar, que voasse ou que vivesse na terra seca - tudo desapareceu. Assim desapareceu tudo o que existia na terra, bichos e seres humanos. Apenas Noé e os que estavam com ele na embarcação sobreviveram!24 As águas cobriram a terra durante cento e cinquenta dias.

1 And the LORD said to Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.3 Of fowls of the air also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth.5 And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every animal that creepeth upon the earth;9 There went in two and two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.13 In the same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.15 And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life.16 And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth.18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth: and the ark moved upon the face of the waters.19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered.21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping animals, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.