| NET Bible | New International 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. | 1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. |
| 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. | 2Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. |
| 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. | 3The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, |
| 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. | 4and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. |
| 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 waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. |
| 6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark | 6After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark |
| 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, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. |
| 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. | 8Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. |
| 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 find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. |
| 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. | 10He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. |
| 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. | 11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. |
| 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 this time it did not return to him. |
| 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. | 13By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. |
| 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. | 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. |
| 15Then God spoke to Noah and said, | 15Then God said to Noah, |
| 16"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. | 16"Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. |
| 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 every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it." |
| 18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. | 18So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. |
| 19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups. | 19All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds--everything that moves on land--came out of the ark, one kind after another. |
| 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, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. |
| 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. | 21The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have 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"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." |
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