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 Noah, and all the wild—beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, —and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

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 roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, —and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

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

and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, —and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

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

And the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, —on the mountains of Ararat.

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.

But, the waters went on decreasing, until the tenth month, —in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, were seen the tops of the mountains.

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

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that 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 sent forth a raven, —and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters 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 forth a dove from him, —to see whether the waters had abated, from off the face of the ground;

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.

but the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot so she returned unto him into the ark, for, waters, were on the face of all the earth; and he put forth his hand and took her, and brought her in unto him, into the ark.

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

Then stayed he yet seven days more, —and, again sent forth the dove out of 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 came in unto him at eventide, and lo! a newly sprouted olive-leaf, in her mouth, —so Noah knew that the waters had abated 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 he stayed yet seven days more, —and sent forth the dove, but she returned not again unto him 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.

So it came to pass in the six hundred and first year at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from off the earth, —and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and lo! the face of the ground was dried.

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

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

15 Then God said to Noah,

So then, God spake to Noah, saying:

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

Come forth out of the ark, —thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

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.”

All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh among birds, and among beasts, and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring forth with thee, —and they shall swarm in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply, on the earth.

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

So Noah came forth, —and his sons and his wife, 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.

All the living creatures, all that move along, and all birds, and all that moveth along over the earth—by their families, 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 Noah builded an altar to Yahweh, —and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on 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 Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man’s sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, —neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, 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.”

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

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark