Genesis 8

1 Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished.

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 And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.

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

3 And the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty days.

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 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

5 Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips 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 And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a raven,

And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,

7 which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across 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 Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face 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 when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark.

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 And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;

11 And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon 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 And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned 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 Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become 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 made dry.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become dry.

15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying:

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 and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons 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 Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.”

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

18 And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.

And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;

19 Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from 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 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon 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 And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul 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 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, 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