| NET Bible | International Standard Version |
| 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. | 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. |
| 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. | 2The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. |
| 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. | 3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. |
| 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. | 4The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. |
| 5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. | 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. |
| 6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark | 6After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built |
| 7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth. | 7and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. |
| 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. | 8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, |
| 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. | 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. |
| 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. | 10Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time. | 12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. | 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry. |
| 15Then God spoke to Noah and said, | 15God spoke to Noah, |
| 16"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. | 16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark. |
| 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!" | 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." |
| 18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. | 18So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged. |
| 19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups. | 19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups. |
| 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. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 22"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." | 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." |
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