8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
8:2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
8:3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
8:4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
8:6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8:8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
8:9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
8:10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
8:11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
8:12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
8:13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
8:15 Then God said to Noah,
8:16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
8:17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you–the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground–so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.”
8:18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
8:19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds–everything that moves on the earth–came out of the ark, one kind after another.
8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
8:21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
8:1 And God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
8:2 The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
8:3 And the waters receded steadily from upon the earth. So at the end of one hundred fifty days the waters began to diminish.
8:4 And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters diminished steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
8:6 And at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
8:7 And he sent out the raven; and it went out, going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8:8 And he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground.
8:9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.
8:10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
8:11 And the dove came to him toward evening time, and there in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.
8:12 And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.
8:13 And in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that now the surface of the ground was dry.
8:14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:15 And God spoke to Noah, saying,
8:16 Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons wives with you;
8:17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh ? birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth ? that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
8:18 So Noah went forth, as well as his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him.
8:19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth from the ark according to their families.
8:20 And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 And Jehovah smelled the satisfying fragrance; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again smite everything living as I have done.
8:22 Throughout all the days that earth remains, / Seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, / And summer and winter, and day and night / Shall not cease.