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 God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which [are] with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

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

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower 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 turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

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

And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on 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 have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

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

And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,

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

and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.

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

And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face 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 the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.

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

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth 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 the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off 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 stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

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 cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

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

And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

15 Then God told Noah,

And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, 'Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

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

every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;

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.”

and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'

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

And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives 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 beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the ark.

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

And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend 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 Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, 'I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, 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.”

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark