| New King James Version | NET Bible |
| 1Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass 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 heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven 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 continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. | 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. |
| 4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, 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 decreased continually 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. |
| 6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. | 6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark |
| 7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had 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. |
| 8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded 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 resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. | 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. |
| 10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. | 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. |
| 11Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded 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. |
| 12So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore. | 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time. |
| 13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface 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. |
| 14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. | 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. |
| 15Then God spoke to Noah, saying, | 15Then God spoke to Noah and said, |
| 16“Go out of 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 of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound 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 animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of 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 of every clean animal and 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 the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing 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. |
| 22“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And 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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