Genesis, 8

1. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

1. Then God remembered Noah and all the animals and cattle that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth and the waters subsided.

2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

2. Then the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed and the downpour from the heavens held back.

3. And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

3. The waters receded from the earth and after one hundred and fifty days the waters had abated.

4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

4. In the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on Mount Ararat.

5. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

5. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month the mountain tops could be seen.

6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

6. At the end of the forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built

7. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

7. and let the raven out. This went off and kept flying to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

8. Then Noah let out the dove to see if the waters were receding from the earth.

9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

9. But the dove could not find a place to set its foot and flew back to him in the ark for the waters still covered the surface of the whole earth. So Noah stretched out his hand, took hold of it and brought it back to himself in the ark.

10. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

10. He waited some more days and again sent the dove out from the ark.

11. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

11. This time the dove came back to him in the evening with a fresh olive branch in its beak. Then Noah knew the waters had receded from the earth.

12. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

12. He waited seven more days and let the dove loose, but it did not return to him any more.

13. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

13. In the year six hundred and one, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and looked out and saw that the surface of the earth was dry.

14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

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

15. And God spake unto Noah, saying,

15. Then God said to Noah,

16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

16. "Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives with you.

17. Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

17. Bring out with you all flesh, that is, all the animals who are with you, all things of flesh; birds, cattle and all that crawls on the earth. Let them abound on the earth, be fruitful and increase in number."

18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

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

19. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

19. All the animals, all the birds, all that creeps on the earth, came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20. And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

20. Noah built an altar to Yahweh and, taking some of all the clean animals and all the clean birds, he offered burnt offerings on it.

21. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

21. Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said to himself: "Never again will I curse the earth because of man, even though his heart is set on evil from childhood; never again will I strike down every living creature as I have done.

22. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

22. As long as the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease to be."