Genesis 8

1 And he remembered God Noah and every animal and all the livestock which [were] with him in the ark and he made to pass God a wind over the earth and they subsided the waters.

But God (did not forget/thought) about Noah and all the wild animals and all the kinds of livestock that were with him in the boat. So one day God sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the wind caused the water [to begin] to recede.

2 And they were shut up [the] springs of [the] deep and [the] floodgates of the heavens and it was restrained the rain from the heavens.

God caused the water that was under the earth to stop bursting forth, and he caused the floodgates of water from the sky to close so that it stopped raining.

3 And they turned back the waters from on the earth going and turning back and they decreased the waters from [the] end of fifty and one hundred day[s].

The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,

4 And it rested the ark in the month seventh on [the] seven-teen day of the month on [the] mountains of Ararat.

(on the 17th day of the seventh month [of that year/late in March]), the boat came to rest on one of the mountains in the Ararat region.

5 And the waters they were going and decreasing until the month tenth in the tenth [month] on [day] one of the month they were seen [the] tops of the mountains.

The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month [of that year], the tops of other mountains became visible.

6 And it was from [the] end of forty day[s] and he opened Noah [the] window of the ark which he had made.

40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.

7 And he sent out the raven and it went out continuously and returned until dried up the waters from on the earth.

The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.

8 And he sent out the dove from with him to see ¿ were they abated the waters from on [the] surface of the ground.

Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.

9 And not found the dove a resting place for [the] sole of foot its and it returned to him into the ark for water [was] on [the] surface of all the earth and he stretched out hand his and he took it and he brought it to him into the ark.

But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat, because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat.

10 And he waited again seven days other and he repeated to send out the dove from the ark.

Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.

11 And it came to him the dove to [the] time of evening and there! a leaf of olive freshly plucked [was] in mouth its and he knew Noah that they were abated the waters from on the earth.

This time the dove returned to him in the evening and, [surprisingly], in its beak there was a leaf from an olive tree that the dove had just plucked. Then Noah knew that the water had truly receded from the surface of the ground.

12 And he waited again seven days other and he sent out the dove and not it repeated to return to him again.

Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13 And it was in one and six hundred year in the first [month] on [day] one of the month they were dried up the waters from on the earth and he removed Noah [the] covering of the ark and he saw and there! they were dried up [the] surface of the ground.

Noah was now 601 years old. By the first day of the first month [of the Jewish year], the water had completely drained away from the ground. Noah removed the covering on top of the ark, and he was surprised to see that the surface of the ground was drying.

14 And in the month second on [the] seven and twenty day of the month was dry the earth.

By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.

15 And he spoke God to Noah saying.

Then God said to Noah,

16 Go out from the ark you and wife your and sons your and [the] wives of sons your with you.

“Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.

17 Every animal which [is] with you some of all flesh among the bird[s] and among the livestock and among every creeping thing which creeps on the earth (bring out *Q(k)*) with you and they will swarm on the earth and they will be fruitful and they will multiply on the earth.

Bring out with you all the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that scurry across the ground, in order that they can spread all over the earth and become very numerous.”

18 And he went out Noah and sons his and wife his and [the] wives of sons his with him.

So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.

19 Every animal every creeping thing and every bird every creeping [thing] on the earth to families their they went out from the ark.

And every kind of creature, including all those that scurry across the ground, all the birds, every creature that moves on the earth, left the boat. They left the boat in groups of their own species.

20 And he built Noah an altar to Yahweh and he took some of all - the livestock clean and some of every bird clean and he offered up burnt offerings on the altar.

Then Noah built a (stone altar/place for offering sacrifices) to Yahweh. Then he took some of the animals that Yahweh had said were acceptable as sacrifices and killed them. Then he burned them whole on the altar.

21 And he smelled Yahweh [the] odor of soothing and he said Yahweh to heart his not I will repeat to curse again the ground for sake of humankind for [the] inclination of [the] heart of humankind [is] evil since youth his and not I will repeat again to strike down every living [thing] just as I have done.

When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time.

22 Again all [the] days of the earth seed and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night not they will cease.

As long as the earth exists, each year there will be seasons for planting seeds and seasons for harvesting crops. Each year there will be times when it is cold and times when it is hot, summer and winter (OR, rainy season and dry season). Each day there will be daytime and nighttime.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark