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.

God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.

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

The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.

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

The flood waters went down slowly from the earth, and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.

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

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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.

The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

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

It came about after forty days that Noah 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.

He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.

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

Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of 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.

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.

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

He waited another seven days and again he sent out 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.

The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.

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

He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.

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.

It came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, looked out, and saw that, behold, the surface of the ground was dry.

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

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

15 Then God said to Noah,

God said to Noah,

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

“Go out of the ark, you, your wife, 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.”

Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—the birds, the animals, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—so that they may grow unto very large numbers of living creatures throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.”

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

So Noah went out with his sons, 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.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, left 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.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings 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.

Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the intentions of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, 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.”

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark