Good News Translation GNT
English Standard Version ESV
1 God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.
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But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2 The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,
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The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
3 and the water gradually went down for 150 days.
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and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.
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and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
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And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window
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At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made
7 and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone.
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and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8 Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down,
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Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.
9 but since the water still covered all the land, the dove did not find a place to light. It flew back to the boat, and Noah reached out and took it in.
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But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.
10 He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again.
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He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down.
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And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
12 Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.
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Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
13 When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry.
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In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.
15 God said to Noah,
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Then God said to Noah,
16 "Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
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"Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17 Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."
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Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
18 So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives.
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So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19 All the animals and birds went out of the boat in groups of their own kind.
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Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
20 Noah built an altar to the Lord; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar.
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord, and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.
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And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
22 As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."
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While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.