Genesis 8

1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.

9 But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

10 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

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

11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

12 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.

15 Then God said to Noah,

And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

Come out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase you and multiply upon the earth.

18 So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.

21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh as I have done.

22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark