Genesis 8

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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.	1 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.
2 The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.	2 The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
3 Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished	3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
4 that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.	4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
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.	5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark,	6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven:
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.	7 Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.	8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
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.	9 But she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.
10 He waited seven days more and again sent the dove out from the ark.	10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
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.	11 And she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.
12 He waited still another seven days and then released the dove once more; and this time it did not come back.	12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.
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.	13 Therefore in the six hundreth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.	14 In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 Then God said to Noah:	15 And God spoke to Noe, saying:
16 "Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.	16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
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."	17 All livings things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increased and multiply upon it.
18 So Noah came out, together with his wife and his sons and his sons' wives;	18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.
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.	19 And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark.
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.	20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.
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.	21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
22 As long as the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."	22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.