| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. | 1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded. |
| 2The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, | 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. |
| 3and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, | 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. |
| 4and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. | 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. | 5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. |
| 6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made | 6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark |
| 7and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. | 7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth. |
| 8Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. | 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. |
| 9But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. | 9The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark. |
| 10He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. | 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. |
| 11And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. | 11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. |
| 12Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. | 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time. |
| 13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. | 13In Noah's six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. |
| 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. | 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. |
| 15Then God said to Noah, | 15Then God spoke to Noah and said, |
| 16“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. | 16"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. |
| 17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” | 17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!" |
| 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. | 18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. |
| 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. | 19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups. |
| 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. | 20Noah built an altar to the LORD. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. |
| 21And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. | 21And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done. |
| 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” | 22"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." |
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