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,

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

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

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

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.

And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

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

And 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 still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

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

Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

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.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone 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,

And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

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 saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

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

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

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 the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on 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 after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back 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.

And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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

And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was 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;

And 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;

Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

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

Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

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

And Noah went out 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.

And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

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;

And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned 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;

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things 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.”

While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark