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 remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

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 were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

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 water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

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 in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads 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,

And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the 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.

And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off 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 a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off 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.

And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

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

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth 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 the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off 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 having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

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 it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

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

And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.

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 the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

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 from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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

And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase you and multiply upon the earth.

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

And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

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 all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth 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 Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon 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 the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh 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.”

All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark