1 A nd God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters sank down and abated.

Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

2 A lso the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the gushing rain from the sky was checked,

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

3 A nd the waters receded from the land continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had diminished.

And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

4 O n the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

5 A nd the waters continued to diminish until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the high hills were seen.

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 A t the end of forty days Noah opened a window of the ark which he had made

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

7 A nd sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.

Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8 T hen he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.

He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

9 B ut the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.

But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

10 H e waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

11 A nd the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.

Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12 T hen he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, but she did not return to him any more.

So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

13 I n the year 601, on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the land. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was drying.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

14 A nd on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was entirely dry.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

15 A nd God spoke to Noah, saying,

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 G o forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you.

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

17 B ring forth every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground—that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

18 A nd Noah went forth, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him.

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

19 E very beast, every creeping thing, every bird—and whatever moves on the land—went forth by families out of the ark.

Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark. God’s Covenant with Creation

20 A nd Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean fowl or bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Then 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.

21 W hen the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination (the strong desire) of man’s heart is evil and wicked from his youth; neither will I ever again smite and destroy every living thing, as I have done.

And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

22 W hile the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”