“I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, thy wife and the wives of thy sons with thee. And of every living creature of all flesh thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex and the female. Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of all shall go in with thee, that they may live. Thou shalt take therefore with thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and for them. Noah therefore did all things which God commanded him.”¹

Ponam foedus meum tecum: et ingredieris tu et filii tui, uxor tua et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum. Et ex cunctis animantibus universae carnis bina induces in arcam, ut vivant tecum, masculini sexus et feminini. De volucribus iuxta genus suum, et de iumentis in genere suo, et ex omni reptili terrae secundum genus suum: bina de omnibus ingredientur tecum, ut possint vivere. Tolles igitur tecum ex omnibus escis quae mandi possunt, et comportabis apud te: et erunt tam tibi quam illis in escam. Fecit igitur Noë omnia quae praeceperat illi Deus.