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 hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop.

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

The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall 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.

The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began

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

the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh 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.

The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen.

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

Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd 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 a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.

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 he sent a dove out to see if the waters had gone down enough to expose dry 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 couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out his hand, picked up the dove, and took it back into the ark with him.

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

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark 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.

When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the floodwaters were mainly gone 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.

Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't 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.

By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out.

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 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 told 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;

“Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.

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

Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.”

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

So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark.

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

All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on land—also left, each kind leaving together.

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;

Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering.

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;

The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just 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 exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark