1 And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
3 And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth {month}, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7 And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.
8 And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.
9 But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
10 And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.
12 And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first {month}, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 And God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
18 And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
19 All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl-everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.
20 And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar.
21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.
22 Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed {time} and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
1 神顾念挪亚和所有与他一同在方舟里的走兽和牲畜； 神使风吹过大地， 水就渐渐退了。
2 深渊的泉源和天上的窗户， 都关闭起来； 天降的大雨也止住了。
3 水从地上不断退去， 过了一百五十天， 水就消退了。
4 七月十七日， 方舟停在亚拉腊山上。
5 水继续消退， 直到十月； 到了十月初一， 山顶都露出来了。
6 过了四十天， 挪亚开了他所做的方舟的窗户，
7 放了一只乌鸦出去。地上的水还没有干， 那乌鸦就一直飞来飞去。
8 他又放了一只鸽子出去， 要看看水从地上退了没有。
9 因为遍地都是水， 那鸽子找不着歇脚的地方， 就回到挪亚的方舟那里； 于是， 挪亚伸出手去， 把鸽子接进方舟里来。
10 他再等了七天， 又把鸽子从方舟里放出去。
11 到了黄昏的时候， 鸽子回到挪亚那里， 嘴里叼着一块新摘下来的橄榄树叶， 挪亚就知道地上的水已经退了。
12 挪亚再等了七天， 又把鸽子放出去， 鸽子就再没有回到他那里。
13 到挪亚六百零一岁的时候， 就在正月初一， 地上的水都干了； 挪亚移开方舟的盖看看， 见地面已经干了。
14 到了二月二十七日， 大地就都干了。
15 神告诉挪亚说：
16 "你要从方舟出来， 你和你的妻子、儿子， 以及儿媳都要和你一同出来。
17 所有和你在一起有生命的活物： 飞鸟、牲畜和一切在地上爬行的动物， 你都要带出来， 使它们可以在地上滋生、繁殖， 也可以在地上增多。"
18 于是， 挪亚出来了， 他的儿子、妻子和儿媳都与他一同出来了；
19 各样走兽、牲畜、飞禽和各样在地上爬行的动物， 各从自己的族类， 都出了方舟。
20 挪亚给耶和华筑了一座祭坛， 拿各样洁净的牲畜和飞禽， 献在祭坛上作为燔祭。
21 耶和华闻了那馨香的气味， 就心里说： "我必不再因人的缘故咒诅这地（因为人从小时开始心中所想的都是邪恶的）； 我也必不再照着我作过的， 击杀各样的活物。
22 大地尚存之日， 播种、收割， 寒暑、冬夏、白昼和黑夜必然循环不息。"