Genesis 8

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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.	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 springs of the deep and the sluices of heaven were stopped up and the heavy rain from heavenwas held back.	2 And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.
3 Little by little, the waters ebbed from the earth. After a hundred and fifty days the waters fel ,	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 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountainsof 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 gradual y fell until the tenth month when, on the first day of the tenth month, the mountaintops 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 window 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 released a raven, which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on earth.	7 which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.
8 He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of 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, 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.	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 After waiting seven more days, he again released the dove 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 beak was a freshly-picked olive leaf! SoNoah realised that the waters were receding from 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 After waiting seven more days, he released the dove, and now it returned to him no more.	12 And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him.
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!	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 'Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.	16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.
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.'	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 with his sons, his wife, 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 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.	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 Yahweh and, choosing from al the clean animals and all the clean birds hepresented burnt offerings 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 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.	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 earth endures: seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and nightwil never cease.'	22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”