Genesis 8

1 But God (did not forget/thought) about Noah and all the wild animals and all the kinds of livestock that were with him in the boat. So one day God sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the wind caused the water [to begin] to recede.

And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which [are] with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

2 God caused the water that was under the earth to stop bursting forth, and he caused the floodgates of water from the sky to close so that it stopped raining.

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

3 The water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,

And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

4 (on the 17th day of the seventh month [of that year/late in March]), the boat came to rest on one of the mountains in the Ararat region.

And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

5 The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month [of that year], the tops of other mountains became visible.

and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

6 40 days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven.

And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,

7 The raven flew back and forth [to and from the boat] until the water was completely gone.

and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded on the ground.

And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

9 But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat, because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat.

and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.

10 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;

11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening and, [surprisingly], in its beak there was a leaf from an olive tree that the dove had just plucked. Then Noah knew that the water had truly receded from the surface of the ground.

and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

12 Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

13 Noah was now 601 years old. By the first day of the first month [of the Jewish year], the water had completely drained away from the ground. Noah removed the covering on top of the ark, and he was surprised to see that the surface of the ground was drying.

And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

14 By the 27th day of the next month, the ground was completely dry.

And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

15 Then God said to Noah,

And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, 'Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

16 “Leave the boat, along with your wife and your sons and their wives.

every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;

17 Bring out with you all the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that scurry across the ground, in order that they can spread all over the earth and become very numerous.”

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

18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.

And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

19 And every kind of creature, including all those that scurry across the ground, all the birds, every creature that moves on the earth, left the boat. They left the boat in groups of their own species.

every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the ark.

20 Then Noah built a (stone altar/place for offering sacrifices) to Yahweh. Then he took some of the animals that Yahweh had said were acceptable as sacrifices and killed them. Then he burned them whole on the altar.

And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

21 When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time.

and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, 'I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

22 As long as the earth exists, each year there will be seasons for planting seeds and seasons for harvesting crops. Each year there will be times when it is cold and times when it is hot, summer and winter (OR, rainy season and dry season). Each day there will be daytime and nighttime.”

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark