| International Standard Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1God kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God's Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside. | 1God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside. |
| 2The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. | 2The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped. |
| 3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. | 3The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly. |
| 4The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. | 4The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5The flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen. | 5The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. |
| 6After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built | 6After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, |
| 7and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. | 7and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. |
| 8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, | 8Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth's surface had gone down, |
| 9but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him. | 9but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself. |
| 10Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. | 10So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again. |
| 11The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land. | 11When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth's surface had gone down. |
| 12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore. | 12After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again. |
| 13In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying. | 13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying. |
| 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry. | 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry. |
| 15God spoke to Noah, | 15Then God spoke to Noah, " |
| 16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark. | 16Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. |
| 17Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth." | 17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you--birds, livestock, those that crawl on the ground--and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." |
| 18So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged. | 18So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, came out. |
| 19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups. | 19All wildlife, all livestock, every bird, and every creature that crawls on the earth came out of the ark by their groups. |
| 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. |
| 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings—even though human inclinations remain evil from youth—nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done. | 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man's inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. |
| 22"Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease." | 22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." |
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