Genesis 8

1 God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 The flood waters went down slowly from the earth, and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5 The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 It came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

7 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.

and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the earth,

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

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

Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

11 The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.

And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12 He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.

And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

13 It came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, looked out, and saw that, behold, the surface of the ground was dry.

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

15 God said to Noah,

Then God said to Noah,

16 “Go out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

17 Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—the birds, the animals, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—so that they may grow unto very large numbers of living creatures throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.”

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, left the ark.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the intentions of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

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

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark