“And God remembered Noah, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle that were with him in the Ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were diminished. And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rains from heaven were restrained. And the waters returned from off the earth, going and returning; and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. And the Ark rested in the seventh month, the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. 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. And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window of the Ark which he had made, sent forth a raven, which went out and did not return until the waters were dried up upon the earth. He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased.”¹

Recordatus autem Deus Noë, cunctorumque animantium et omnium iumentorum quae erant cum eo in Arca, adduxit spiritum super terram, et imminutae sunt aquae. Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi et cataractae caeli, et prohibitae sunt pluviae de caelo. Reversaeque sunt aquae de terra euntes et redeuntes, et coeperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies. Requievitque Arca mense septimo, vicesimo septimo die mensis, super montes Armeniae. At vero aquae ibant et decrescebant usque ad decimum mensem: decimo enim mense, prima die mensis, apparuerunt cacumina montium. Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, aperiens Noë fenestram arcae quam fecerat, dimisit corvum, qui egrediebatur et non revertebatur, donec siccarentur aquae super terram. Emisit quoque columbam post eum, ut videret si iam cessassent aquae.