Genesis 8

1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

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.

2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

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

3 And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

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

4 And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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

5 And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

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

6 Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

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

7 Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

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

8 And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

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

9 But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

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.

10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

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

11 And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

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.

12 And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

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

13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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.

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

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

15 And God said to Noah,

God said to Noah,

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

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

17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

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.”

18 And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;

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

19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

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

20 And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.

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.

21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

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.

22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

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

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark