| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. | 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. |
| 2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. | 2The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. |
| 3And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. | 3So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, |
| 4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. | 4exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. | 5Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. |
| 6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. | 6After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat |
| 7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. | 7and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. |
| 8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. | 8He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. |
| 9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. | 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. |
| 10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. | 10After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. |
| 11Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. | 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. |
| 12So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore. | 12He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. |
| 13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry. | 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. |
| 14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. | 14Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry! |
| 15Then God spoke to Noah, saying, | 15Then God said to Noah, |
| 16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. | 16“Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. |
| 17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” | 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.” |
| 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. | 18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. |
| 19Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark. | 19And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair. |
| 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. | 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. |
| 21And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. | 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. |
| 22“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” | 22As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.” |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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