| New Living Translation | NET 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. | 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 underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. | 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. |
| 3So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, | 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. |
| 4exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest 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. |
| 5Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. | 5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. |
| 6After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat | 6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark |
| 7and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. | 7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth. |
| 8He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. | 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface 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. | 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. |
| 10After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. | 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from 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. | 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. |
| 12He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. | 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 14Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry! | 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. |
| 15Then God said to Noah, | 15Then God spoke to Noah and said, |
| 16“Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. | 16"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. |
| 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 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, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. | 18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. |
| 19And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair. | 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 there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose. | 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 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 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. |
| 22As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.” | 22"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." |
|
