Genesis 8

1 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,

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

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

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

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

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

5 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.

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

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

7 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.

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

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

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

9 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.

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

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

11 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.

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

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

13 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.

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

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

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

Then God said to Noah,

16 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;

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

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

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

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

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

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 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;

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 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.”

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