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:

²The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

³And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

⁵And 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.

⁶And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:

⁷Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.

⁸He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

⁹But 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.

¹⁰And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

¹¹And 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.

¹²And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.

¹³Therefore in the six hundredth 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.

¹⁴In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

¹⁵And God spoke to Noe, saying:

¹⁶Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.

¹⁷All 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.

¹⁸So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

¹⁹And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.

²⁰And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

²¹And 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.

²²All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Chapter 9

And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

²And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

³And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

⁴Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

⁵For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

⁶Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

⁷But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

⁸Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:

⁹Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:

¹⁰And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.

¹¹I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.

¹²And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.

¹³I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.

¹⁴And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:

¹⁵And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.

¹⁷And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.

¹⁸And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.

¹⁹These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

²⁰And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.

²¹And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

²²Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

²³But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

²⁴And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

²⁵He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

²⁶And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

²⁷May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

²⁸And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

²⁹And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

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