Genesis 8

1 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.

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.

2 The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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

3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

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

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

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

5 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 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.

6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven:

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

7 Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.

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

8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

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

9 But she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.

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.

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

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

11 And she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.

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.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.

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

13 Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.

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.

14 In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

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

15 And God spoke to Noe, saying:

Then God said to Noah,

16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

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

17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

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.”

18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

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

19 And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark.

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

20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

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.

21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

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.

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

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

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark