Genesis 8

1 But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop.

And he remembered God Noah and every animal and all the livestock which [were] with him in the ark and he made to pass God a wind over the earth and they subsided the waters.

2 The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped.

And they were shut up [the] springs of [the] deep and [the] floodgates of the heavens and it was restrained the rain from the heavens.

3 The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began

And they turned back the waters from on the earth going and turning back and they decreased the waters from [the] end of fifty and one hundred day[s].

4 the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

And it rested the ark in the month seventh on [the] seven-teen day of the month on [the] mountains of Ararat.

5 The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen.

And the waters they were going and decreasing until the month tenth in the tenth [month] on [day] one of the month they were seen [the] tops of the mountains.

6 Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,

And it was from [the] end of forty day[s] and he opened Noah [the] window of the ark which he had made.

7 and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.

And he sent out the raven and it went out continuously and returned until dried up the waters from on the earth.

8 Then he sent a dove out to see if the waters had gone down enough to expose dry ground.

And he sent out the dove from with him to see ¿ were they abated the waters from on [the] surface of the ground.

9 But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out his hand, picked up the dove, and took it back into the ark with him.

And not found the dove a resting place for [the] sole of foot its and it returned to him into the ark for water [was] on [the] surface of all the earth and he stretched out hand his and he took it and he brought it to him into the ark.

10 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again.

And he waited again seven days other and he repeated to send out the dove from the ark.

11 When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the floodwaters were mainly gone from the earth.

And it came to him the dove to [the] time of evening and there! a leaf of olive freshly plucked [was] in mouth its and he knew Noah that they were abated the waters from on the earth.

12 Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to him.

And he waited again seven days other and he sent out the dove and not it repeated to return to him again.

13 By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out.

And it was in one and six hundred year in the first [month] on [day] one of the month they were dried up the waters from on the earth and he removed Noah [the] covering of the ark and he saw and there! they were dried up [the] surface of the ground.

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

And in the month second on [the] seven and twenty day of the month was dry the earth.

15 Then God told Noah,

And he spoke God to Noah saying.

16 “Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.

Go out from the ark you and wife your and sons your and [the] wives of sons your with you.

17 Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.”

Every animal which [is] with you some of all flesh among the bird[s] and among the livestock and among every creeping thing which creeps on the earth (bring out *Q(k)*) with you and they will swarm on the earth and they will be fruitful and they will multiply on the earth.

18 So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark.

And he went out Noah and sons his and wife his and [the] wives of sons his with him.

19 All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on land—also left, each kind leaving together.

Every animal every creeping thing and every bird every creeping [thing] on the earth to families their they went out from the ark.

20 Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering.

And he built Noah an altar to Yahweh and he took some of all - the livestock clean and some of every bird clean and he offered up burnt offerings on the altar.

21 The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.

And he smelled Yahweh [the] odor of soothing and he said Yahweh to heart his not I will repeat to curse again the ground for sake of humankind for [the] inclination of [the] heart of humankind [is] evil since youth his and not I will repeat again to strike down every living [thing] just as I have done.

22 As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”

Again all [the] days of the earth seed and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night not they will cease.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark