Genesis 8

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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 But God had Noah in mind, and al the wild animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. Godsent a wind across the earth and the waters began to subside.
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;	2 The springs of the deep and the sluices of heaven were stopped up and the heavy rain from heavenwas 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 Little by little, the waters ebbed from the earth. After a hundred and fifty days the waters fel ,
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.	4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountainsof 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 gradual y fell until the tenth month when, on the first day of the tenth month, the mountaintops appeared.
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 forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
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 released a raven, which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on 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 He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of 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, finding nowhere to perch, returned to him in the ark, for there was water over the wholesurface of the earth; putting out his hand he took hold of it and brought it back into the ark with him.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;	10 After waiting seven more days, he again released the dove 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 In the evening, the dove came back to him and there in its beak was a freshly-picked olive leaf! SoNoah realised that the waters were receding 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 After waiting seven more days, he released the dove, and now it returned to him no 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 It was in the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month and on the first of the month,that the waters began drying out on earth. Noah lifted back the hatch of the ark and looked out. The surface ofthe ground was dry!
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.	14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the 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, your wife, your sons, and your sons' 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 all the animals with you, all living things, the birds, the cattle and al the creeping things thatcreep along the ground, for them to swarm on earth, for them to breed and multiply on earth.'
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:	18 So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.
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 And al the wild animals, al the cattle, al the birds and al the creeping things that creep along theground, came out of the ark, one species 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 Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh and, choosing from al the clean animals and all the clean birds hepresented burnt offerings on the altar.
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 smelt the pleasing smell and said to himself, 'Never again wil I curse the earth because ofhuman beings, because their heart contrives evil from their infancy. Never again wil I strike down every livingthing 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 earth endures: seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and nightwil never cease.'