Genesis 8

1 Now God remembred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: therefore God made a winde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceased.

And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

2 The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,

and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.

3 And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.

And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

4 And in the seuenth moneth, in the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the Arke rested vpon the mountaines of Ararat.

And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

5 And the waters were going and decreasing vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth were the toppes of the mountaines seene.

and the waters have been going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the heads of the mountains appeared.

6 So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,

And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,

7 And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.

and he sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.

8 Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.

And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

9 But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote: therefore she returned vnto him into the Arke (for the waters were vpon the whole earth) and he put forth his hand, and receiued her, and tooke her to him into the Arke.

and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the Ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the Ark.

10 And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.

And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;

11 And the doue came to him in ye euening, and loe, in her mouth was an oliue leafe that she had pluckt: whereby Noah knewe that the waters were abated from off the earth.

and the dove comes to him at evening, and behold, an olive leaf [is] torn off in her mouth; and Noah knows that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

12 Notwithstanding he wayted yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.

And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.

13 And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.

And it comes to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turns aside the covering of the Ark, and looks, and behold, the face of the ground has been dried.

14 And in the second moneth, in the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

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

15 Then God spake to Noah, saying,

And God speaks to Noah, saying, “Go out from the Ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you;

16 Goe forth of the Arke, thou and thy wife, and thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee.

every living thing that [is] with you, of all flesh, among bird, and among livestock, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with you;

17 Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite and increase vpon ye earth.

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

18 So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.

And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;

19 Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.

every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the Ark.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar.

And Noah builds an altar to YHWH, and takes from every clean beast and from every clean bird, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

21 And the Lord smellled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.

and YHWH smells the refreshing fragrance, and YHWH says to His heart, “I do not continue to disfavor the ground because of man anymore, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I do not continue to strike all living anymore, as I have done;

22 Hereafter seede time and haruest, and colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.

during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark