CHAP. VIII.
The deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth
out of the ark, and offereth
sacrifice. God's covenant
to him.
1 And God remembred
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
note 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
hundred 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 living 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: increase 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 note holocausts
upon the altar.
21 And the Lord note
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 their youth: therefore
I will no more destroy
every living soul as I have
done.
22 All the days of the
earth, seed-time and harvest,
cold and heat, summer and
winter, night and day shall
not cease.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
