| New Living Translation | King James Bible |
| 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. | 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; |
| 2The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. | 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; |
| 3So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, | 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. |
| 4exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. | 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. | 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. |
| 6After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat | 6And it came to pass 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 forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. |
| 8He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. | 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; |
| 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 rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. |
| 10After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. | 10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of 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. | 11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. |
| 12He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. | 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. |
| 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. | 13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. |
| 14Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry! | 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. |
| 15Then God said to Noah, | 15And God spake unto Noah, saying, |
| 16“Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. | 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. |
| 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.” | 17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. |
| 18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. | 18And Noah went forth, 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 fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of 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. | 20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, 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. | 21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, 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.” | 22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. |
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