| King James Bible | NET Bible |
| 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; | 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 also of the deep and the windows of heaven were 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 returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. | 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. |
| 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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, were the tops of the mountains 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. |
| 6And 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 |
| 7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. | 7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth. |
| 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off 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 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. | 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 stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; | 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. | 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 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. | 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 seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. | 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. |
| 15And God spake unto Noah, saying, | 15Then God spoke to Noah and said, |
| 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. | 16"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. |
| 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. | 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!" |
| 18And Noah went forth, 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 beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth 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. |
| 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. | 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 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. | 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. |
| 22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, 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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