| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 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; | 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. |
| 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; | 2The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. |
| 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. | 3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely 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. | 4The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. |
| 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 flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen. |
| 6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: | 6After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built |
| 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 went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. |
| 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; | 8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, |
| 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. | 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. |
| 10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; | 10Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. | 12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore. |
| 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 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. |
| 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. | 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry. |
| 15And God spake unto Noah, saying, | 15God spoke to Noah, |
| 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. | 16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark. |
| 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 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." |
| 18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: | 18So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged. |
| 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. | 19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by 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. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. | 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." |
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