Genesis 8

1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

And God remembered Noah, and all the wild—beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, —and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, —and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, —and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

And the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, —on the mountains of Ararat.

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

But, the waters went on decreasing, until the tenth month, —in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, were seen the tops of the mountains.

6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made;

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

and sent forth a raven, —and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters from off the earth.

8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

And he sent forth a dove from him, —to see whether the waters had abated, from off the face of the ground;

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

but the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot so she returned unto him into the ark, for, waters, were on the face of all the earth; and he put forth his hand and took her, and brought her in unto him, into the ark.

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

Then stayed he yet seven days more, —and, again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

And the dove came in unto him at eventide, and lo! a newly sprouted olive-leaf, in her mouth, —so Noah knew that the waters had abated from off the earth.

12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

And he stayed yet seven days more, —and sent forth the dove, but she returned not again unto him any more.

13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

So it came to pass in the six hundred and first year at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from off the earth, —and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and lo! the face of the ground was 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, was the earth dry.

15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

So then, God spake to Noah, saying:

16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Come forth out of the ark, —thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh among birds, and among beasts, and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring forth with thee, —and they shall swarm in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply, on the earth.

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

So Noah came forth, —and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

All the living creatures, all that move along, and all birds, and all that moveth along over the earth—by their families, came forth out of the ark.

20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh, —and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar.

21 The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man’s sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, —neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, 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 will not cease.”

During all the days of the earth, 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