1 Deus lembrou-se de Noé, de todos os animais e de todo o gado, que estavam com ele na arca; Deus fez passar um vento sobre a terra, e as águas se diminuíram.2 Fecharam-se as fontes do abismo, e as janelas do céu, e foram retidas do céu as copiosas chuvas.3 Iam-se as águas retirando continuamente de cima da terra, e no fim de cento e cinqüenta dias as águas minguaram.4 No sétimo mês, no dia dezessete do mês, repousou a arca sobre os montes de Ararate.5 As águas iam diminuindo continuamente até o décimo mês: no décimo mês, no primeiro dia do mês, foram vistos os cumes dos montes.6 Passados quarenta dias, abriu Noé a janela que havia feito na arca;7 soltou um corvo que, saindo, ia e voltava, até que as águas se secaram de sobre a face da terra.8 Depois soltou uma pomba, para ver se as águas tinham minguado de sobre a face da terra;9 mas a pomba não achou onde pousar a planta do pé, e voltou a ele para a arca; porque as águas ainda cobriam a face da terra. Noé, estendendo a mão, tomou-a e a fez recolher na arca.10 Esperou ainda outros sete dias, e de novo soltou a pomba para fora da arca.11 À tarde a pomba voltou para ele, e eis no seu bico uma folha verde de oliveira: assim soube Noé que as águas tinham minguado de sobre a terra.12 Então esperou ainda outros sete dias, e enviou a pomba; porém ela não voltou mais para ele.13 No ano seiscentos e um, no primeiro mês, no primeiro dia do mês, secaram-se as águas de cima da terra e, tirando a coberta da arca, olhou Noé, e eis que a face da terra estava enxuta.14 No segundo mês, aos vinte e sete dias do mês, a terra estava seca.15 Então disse Deus a Noé:16 Sai da arca, tu com tua mulher, teus filhos e as mulheres de teus filhos.17 Faze também sair a todos os animais, que estão contigo, de toda a carne, tanto aves, como gado e todo o réptil que se arrasta sobre a terra; para que se reproduzam abundantemente na terra, frutifiquem e se multipliquem sobre ela.18 Saíram, pois, Noé, seus filhos, sua mulher, e as mulheres de seus filhos.19 Todo o animal, todo o réptil, toda a ave, tudo o que se move sobre a terra, segundo as suas famílias, saíram da arca.20 Edificou Noé um altar a Jeová; tomou de todo o animal limpo e de toda a ave limpa, e ofereceu holocaustos sobre o altar.21 Sentiu Jeová o suave cheiro, e disse no seu coração: Não tornarei mais a amaldiçoar a terra por causa do homem, pois a imaginação do coração do homem é má desde a sua mocidade; nem tornarei mais a ferir todo o vivente, como acabo de fazer.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 Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.2 The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven:7 Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.9 But she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.11 And she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.13 Therefore in the six hundreth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.14 In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.15 And God spoke to Noe, saying:16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.17 All livings things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increased and multiply upon it.18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.19 And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark.20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.