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# Genesis 8

Genesis 8 is chapter 8 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and offereth a sacrifice. God's covenant to him.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished.
2. And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.
3. And the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty days.
4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
5. Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appeared.
6. And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a raven,
7. which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.
8. Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
9. But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark.
10. And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11. And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth.
12. And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him.
13. Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry.
14. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah, saying:
16. “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.
17. Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.”
18. And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.
19. Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark.
20. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar.
21. And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce 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, will not cease.”

## Genesis 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Recordatus autem Deus Noë, cunctorumque animantium, et omnium jumentorum, quæ erant cum eo in arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutæ sunt aquæ.
2. Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractæ cæli: et prohibitæ sunt pluviæ de cælo.
3. Reversæque sunt aquæ de terra euntes et redeuntes: et cœperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies.
4. Requievitque arca mense septimo, vigesimo septimo die mensis, super montes Armeniæ.
5. At vero aquæ ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem: decimo enim mense, primo die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium.
6. Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noë fenestram arcæ, quam fecerat, dimisit corvum,
7. qui egrediebatur, et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aquæ super terram.
8. Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si jam cessassent aquæ super faciem terræ.
9. Quæ cum non invenisset ubi requiesceret pes ejus, reversa est ad eum in arcam: aquæ 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 olivæ virentibus foliis in ore suo: intellexit ergo Noë quod cessassent aquæ super terram.
12. Expectavitque nihilominus septem alios dies: et emisit columbam, quæ non est reversa ultra ad eum.
13. Igitur sexcentesimo primo anno, primo mense, prima die mensis, imminutæ sunt aquæ super terram: et aperiens Noë tectum arcæ, aspexit, viditque quod exsiccata esset superficies terræ.
14. Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.
15. Locutus est autem Deus ad Noë, dicens:
16. Egredere de arca, tu et uxor tua, filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum.
17. Cuncta animantia, quæ sunt apud te, ex omni carne, tam in volatilibus quam in bestiis et universis reptilibus, quæ reptant super terram, educ tecum, et ingredimini super terram: crescite et multiplicamini super eam.
18. Egressus est ergo Noë, et filii ejus: uxor illius, et uxores filiorum ejus cum eo.
19. Sed et omnia animantia, jumenta, et reptilia quæ reptant super terram, secundum genus suum, egressa sunt de arca.
20. Ædificavit autem Noë 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 terræ 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 terræ, sementis et messis, frigus et æstus, æstas et hiems, nox et dies non requiescent.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 701: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2569: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: “Did not return” … The raven did not return into the ark; but (as it may be gathered from the Hebrew) went to and fro; sometimes going to the mountains, where it found carcasses to feed on: and other times returning, to rest upon the top of the ark.
- Verse 20: “Holocausts” … or whole burnt offerings. In which the whole victim was consumed by fire upon God's altar, and no part was reserved for the use of priest or people.
- Verse 21: “Smelled” … A figurative expression, denoting that God was well pleased with the sacrifices which his servant offered.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).