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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from 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 out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

And God said to Noah,

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

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

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.”

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.

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

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

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

And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went 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 made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings 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 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.

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

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.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark