8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
8:2 Also the fountains of the deep and the ①floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
▷ ①Or windows of the heavens
8:3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.
8:4 Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
8:6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
8:7 and he sent out a raven, and it ①flew here and there until the water was dried up ②from the earth.
▷ ①Lit went out, going and returning ②Lit from upon
8:8 Then he sent out a ①dove, to see if the water was low on the ②surface of the land;
▷ ①Lit dove from him ②Lit face
8:9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the ①surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself.
▷ ①Lit face
8:10 So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
8:11 And the dove came to him in ①the evening, and behold, in its ②beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth.
▷ ①Lit the time of evening ②Lit mouth
8:12 Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again.
8:13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up ①from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the ②surface of the ground had dried up.
▷ ①Lit from upon ②Lit face
8:14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
8:16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
8:17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may ①breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
▷ ①Or swarm
8:18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
8:19 Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out ①by their families from the ark.
▷ ①Or according to their kind
8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took some of every kind of clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma, and the LORD said ①to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the ②intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again ③destroy every living thing, as I have done.
▷ ①Lit to His heart ②Or inclination ③Lit strike
8:22 While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”