Genesis 8

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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 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 springs of the deep and the sluices of heaven were stopped up and the heavy rain from heavenwas 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 Little by little, the waters ebbed from the earth. After a hundred and fifty days the waters fel ,	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 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, the seven and twentieth 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 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 window 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 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, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.
8 He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of 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, 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 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 After waiting seven more days, he again released the dove 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 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 a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.
12 After waiting seven more days, he released the dove, and now it returned to him no more.	12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto 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 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 'Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.	16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
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 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 with his sons, his wife, 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 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 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 Yahweh and, choosing from al the clean animals and all the clean birds hepresented burnt offerings 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 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 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 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, shall not cease.