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, a arca repousou sobre as montanhas de Ararate. 5 Dois meses e meio depois, 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, 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 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 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you —the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground —so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds —everything that moves on land —came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though "every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."