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 Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

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 windows of heaven were stopped, 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 continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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 decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains 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 at the end of forty days, that Noah 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, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up 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,

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face 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 rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

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

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he 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 the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated 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 he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him 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 hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

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

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth 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 spake unto Noah, 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 forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

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

Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

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

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, 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.

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went 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 Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and 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;

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, 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 remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark