1 Então Deus lembrou de Noé e de todos os animais que estavam com ele na barca. Deus fez com que um vento soprasse sobre a terra, e a água começou a baixar. 2 As fontes do grande mar e as janelas do céu se fecharam. Parou de chover, 3 e durante cento e cinquenta dias a água foi baixando pouco a pouco. 4 No dia dezessete do sétimo mês, a barca parou na região montanhosa de Ararate. 5 A água continuou a baixar, até que no primeiro dia do décimo mês apareceram os picos das montanhas.

6 No fim de quarenta dias, Noé abriu a janela que havia feito na barca 7 e soltou um corvo, que ficou voando de um lado para outro, esperando que a terra secasse. 8 Depois Noé soltou uma pomba a fim de ver se a terra já estava seca; 9 mas a pomba não achou lugar para pousar porque a terra ainda estava toda coberta de água. Aí Noé estendeu a mão, pegou a pomba e a pôs dentro da barca.

10 Noé esperou mais sete dias e soltou a pomba de novo. 11 Ela voltou à tardinha, trazendo no bico uma folha verde de oliveira. Assim Noé ficou sabendo que a água havia baixado. 12 E ele esperou mais sete dias e de novo soltou a pomba, e dessa vez ela não voltou.

13 Quando Noé tinha seiscentos e um anos, as águas que estavam sobre a terra secaram. No dia primeiro do primeiro mês, Noé tirou a cobertura da barca e viu que a terra estava secando. 14 No dia vinte e sete do segundo mês, a terra estava bem seca. 15 Aí Deus disse a Noé:

16 — Saia da barca junto com a sua mulher, os seus filhos e as suas noras. 17 Faça sair também todos os animais que estão com você, isto é, as aves, os animais domésticos, os animais selvagens e os que se arrastam pelo chão. Que eles se espalhem por toda parte e tenham muitas crias para encherem a terra.

18 Assim Noé e a sua mulher saíram da barca, junto com os seus filhos e as suas noras. 19 Também saíram todos os animais e as aves, em grupos, de acordo com as suas espécies.

20 Noé construiu um altar para oferecer sacrifícios a Deus, o Senhor. Ele pegou aves e animais puros, um de cada espécie, e os queimou como sacrifício no altar. 21 O cheiro dos sacrifícios agradou ao Senhor, e ele pensou assim: "Nunca mais vou amaldiçoar a terra por causa da raça humana, pois eu sei que desde a sua juventude as pessoas só pensam em coisas más. 22 Também nunca mais destruirei todos os seres vivos, como fiz desta vez. Enquanto o mundo existir, sempre haverá semeadura e colheita, frio e calor, verão e inverno, dia e noite."

1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, 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 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was kept back;

3 and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

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 decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains 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 forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in to him into the ark.

10 And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11 and the dove came in to him at evening; and, look, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return again to him anymore.

13 And it came to pass in the six hundred 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 noticed that the face of the ground was dried.

14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

15 And God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

21 And Yahweh smelled the sweet savor; and Yahweh said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again strike anymore everything living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.