| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1God kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God's Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside. | 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 water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. | 2Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; |
| 3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. | 3and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. |
| 4The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. | 4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5The flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen. | 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 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built | 6Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; |
| 7and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. | 7and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. |
| 8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, | 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 not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him. | 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. |
| 10Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. | 10So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. |
| 11The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land. | 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 seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore. | 12Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again. |
| 13In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land 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. |
| 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry. | 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. |
| 15God spoke to Noah, | 15Then God spoke to Noah, saying, |
| 16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark. | 16"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you. |
| 17Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, 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 sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged. | 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. |
| 19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups. | 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 offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird. | 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. |
| 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings—even though human inclinations remain evil from youth—nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done. | 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. |
| 22"Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease." | 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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