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.

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

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

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.

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 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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 continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

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 came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark 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 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters were 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 out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the earth,

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 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.

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

And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth 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 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 waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.

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

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.

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 said to Noah,

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 ark, you, your wife, 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 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.”

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

18 So Noah went out 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 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, left the ark.

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 Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, 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 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.

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, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will 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