Genesis 8

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
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 and then God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over 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 fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was 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 Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.	4 that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of 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 diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains 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 hatch 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 he sent out a raven, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off 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 he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on 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 find no place to alight and perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water all over the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;	10 He waited seven days more 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 In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had lessened on 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 still another seven days and then released the dove once more; and this time it did not come back.
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 six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water began to dry up on the earth. Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was drying up.
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 "Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
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 every living thing that is with you--all bodily creatures, be they birds or animals or creeping things of the earth-and let them abound on the earth, breeding and multiplying on it."
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:	18 So Noah came out, together with his wife and his sons 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 all the animals, wild and tame, all the birds, and all the creeping creatures of the earth left 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 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered holocausts 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 When the LORD smelled the sweet odor, he said to himself: "Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the desires of man's heart are evil from the start; nor will I ever again strike down all living beings, 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, and day and night shall not cease."