| New Living Translation | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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. | 1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. |
| 2The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. | 2Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; |
| 3So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, | 3and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. |
| 4exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. | 4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. | 5The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. |
| 6After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat | 6Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; |
| 7and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. | 7and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. |
| 8He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. | 8Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; |
| 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. | 9but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself. |
| 10After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. | 10So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. |
| 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. | 11The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. |
| 12He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. | 12Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again. |
| 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. | 13Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. |
| 14Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry! | 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. |
| 15Then God said to Noah, | 15Then God spoke to Noah, saying, |
| 16“Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. | 16"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you. |
| 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.” | 17"Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." |
| 18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. | 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. |
| 19And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair. | 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark. |
| 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. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. |
| 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. | 21The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. |
| 22As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.” | 22"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease." |
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