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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

7 which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.

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

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

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.

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

He waited another seven days and again he sent out 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.

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 nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him.

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

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.

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

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

15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying:

God said to Noah,

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”

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