1 Então Deus se lembrou de Noé e de todos os animais selvagens e domésticos que estavam com ele na arca. Deus fez soprar um vento sobre a terra, e as águas do dilúvio começaram a baixar. 2 As fontes subterrâneas pararam de jorrar, e as chuvas torrenciais cessaram. 3 As águas do dilúvio foram baixando aos poucos. Depois de 150 dias, 4 exatamente cinco meses depois do início do dilúvio,*8.4 Em hebraico, no sétimo dia do sétimo mês; ver 7.11. a arca repousou sobre as montanhas de Ararate. 5 Dois meses e meio depois,*8.5 Em hebraico, No primeiro dia do décimo mês; ver 7.11 e nota em 8.4. à medida que as águas continuaram a baixar, apareceram os picos de outras montanhas.

6 Passados mais quarenta dias, Noé abriu a janela que havia feito na arca 7 e soltou um corvo, que ia e voltava até as águas do dilúvio secarem sobre a terra. 8 Noé também soltou uma pomba para ver se as águas tinham baixado e se ela encontraria terra seca, 9 mas a pomba não encontrou lugar para pousar, pois a água ainda cobria todo o solo. Então a pomba retornou à arca, e Noé estendeu a mão e a trouxe de volta para dentro. 10 Depois de esperar mais sete dias, Noé soltou a pomba mais uma vez. 11 Quando ela voltou ao entardecer, trouxe no bico uma folha nova de oliveira. Noé concluiu que restava pouca água do dilúvio. 12 Esperou outros sete dias e soltou a pomba novamente. Dessa vez, ela não voltou.

13 Noé tinha completado 601 anos. No primeiro dia do novo ano, dez meses e meio depois do início do dilúvio,*8.13 Em hebraico, No primeiro dia do primeiro mês; ver 7.11. quase não havia mais água sobre a terra. Noé levantou a cobertura da arca e viu que o solo estava praticamente seco. 14 Mais dois meses se passaram*8.14 Em hebraico, Chegou o vigésimo sétimo dia do segundo mês; ver nota em 8.13. e, por fim, a terra estava completamente seca.

15 Então Deus disse a Noé: 16 "Saiam da arca, você, sua mulher, seus filhos e as mulheres deles. 17 Solte todos os animais, as aves, os animais domésticos e os animais que rastejam pelo chão, para que sejam férteis e se multipliquem na terra".

18 Noé, sua mulher, seus filhos e as mulheres deles desembarcaram. 19 Todos os animais, grandes e pequenos, e as aves saíram da arca, um casal de cada vez.

20 Em seguida, Noé construiu um altar ao Senhor e ali ofereceu como holocaustos alguns animais e aves puros. 21 O aroma do sacrifício agradou ao Senhor, que disse consigo: "Nunca mais amaldiçoarei a terra por causa do ser humano, embora todos os seus pensamentos e seus propósitos se inclinem para o mal desde a infância. Nunca mais destruirei todos os seres vivos. 22 Enquanto durar a terra, haverá plantio e colheita, frio e calor, verão e inverno, dia e noite".

1 And 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; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.*8.3 continually: Heb. in going and returning

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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.*8.5 decreased…: Heb. were in going and decreasing

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, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.*8.7 to…: Heb. in going forth and returning 8 Also 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 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.*8.9 pulled…: Heb. caused her to come 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And 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. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

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

15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. 17 Bring 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. 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 fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.*8.19 kinds: Heb. families

20 And 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. 21 And 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.*8.21 a sweet…: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction*8.21 for the imagination: or, through the imagination 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.*8.22 While…: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth