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 living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.

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

The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven 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.

And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

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

And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

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 were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

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

And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven:

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.

Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon 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,

He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon 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 she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her 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 out of 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 she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon 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 he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto 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.

Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.

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

In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

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 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;

Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

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

All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

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

So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons 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 living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds, 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 Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts 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 smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul 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, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark