Genesis 8

1 And God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals, and all the tame animals, and all the flying creatures, and all the crawling creatures that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to recede.

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,

2 And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

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

3 And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly.

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.

4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ship came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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

5 The waters receded continually to the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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.

6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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

7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters had dried up from the earth.

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.

8 Then he sent forth a dove from it, to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground,

And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

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.

10 And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

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

11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, look, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.

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.

12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.

13 And it happened in the six hundred first year of Noah's life, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters had dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ship and looked out. And look, the surface of the ground was dry.

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.

14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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

15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

And God speaks to Noah, saying, “Go out from the Ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you;

16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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;

17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, of flying creatures, and animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

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

18 And Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

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

19 And every wild animal, and every tame animal, and every flying creature, and every creature that crawls on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

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

20 Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean flying creature, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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;

21 And God smelled the pleasing aroma, and God said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of his heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

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;

22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

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.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark