| Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside. | 1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. |
| 2The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped. | 2The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. |
| 3The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly. | 3So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, |
| 4The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. | 4exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5The water continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. | 5Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. |
| 6After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, | 6After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat |
| 7and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. | 7and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. |
| 8Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth's surface had gone down, | 8He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. |
| 9but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself. | 9But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside. |
| 10So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again. | 10After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. |
| 11When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth's surface had gone down. | 11This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. |
| 12After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again. | 12He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. |
| 13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying. | 13Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying. |
| 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry. | 14Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry! |
| 15Then God spoke to Noah, | 15Then God said to Noah, |
| 16"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. | 16“Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. |
| 17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you--birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth--and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." | 17Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.” |
| 18So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, came out. | 18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. |
| 19All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ark by their families. | 19And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair. |
| 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose. |
| 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. | 21And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things. |
| 22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." | 22As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.” |
| The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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