Genesis 8

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished.
2 The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.	2 And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. 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 were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one 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, on the twenty-seventh 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 Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appeared.
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark,	6 And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, 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, until the waters were dried up across the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.	8 Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order 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 when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark.
10 He waited seven days more and again sent the dove out from the ark.	10 And then, having waited a further seven 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 in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had 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 nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to 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 hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.	14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dry.
15 Then God said to Noah:	15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying:
16 "Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.	16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.
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 Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.”
18 So Noah came out, together with his wife and his sons and his sons' wives;	18 And so Noah and his sons went out, and 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 Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from 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 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he 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 the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce 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, will not cease.”