Gen 8 | NASB2020 | STEP | But God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark ; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth , and the water subsided .

Genesis 8

The Flood Subsides

1 But ^aGod remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and ^bGod caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2 Also ^cthe fountains of the deep and the ^{▼▼Or windows of the heavens}floodgates of the sky were closed, and ^ethe rain from the sky was restrained; 3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end ^fof 150 days the water decreased. 4 Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, ^gthe ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the ^hwindow of the ark which he had made; 7 and he sent out a raven, and it ^{▼▼Lit went out, going and returning}flew here and there until the water was dried up ^{▼▼Lit from upon}from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a ^{▼▼Lit dove from him}dove, to see if the water was low on the ^{▼▼Lit face}surface of the land; 9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the ^{▼▼Lit face}surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself. 10 So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And the dove came to him in ^{▼▼Lit the time of evening}the evening, and behold, in its ^{▼▼Lit mouth}beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out ^pthe dove; but it did not return to him again.

13 Now it came about in the ^qsix hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up ^{▼▼Lit from upon}from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the ^{▼▼Lit face}surface of the ground had dried up. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may ^{▼▼Or swarm
,} ^ubreed abundantly on the earth, and ^vbe fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out ^{▼▼Or according to their kind}by their families from the ark.

20 Then Noah built ^xan altar to the Lord, and took some of every kind of ^yclean animal and some of every clean bird and offered ^zburnt offerings on the altar. 21 The Lord ^aasmelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said ^{▼▼Lit to His heart}to Himself, “I will never again ^accurse the ground on account of man, for ^adthe ^{▼▼Or inclination}intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^afand I will never again ^{▼▼Lit strike}destroy every living thing, as I have done.

22 “While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
^ahSummer and winter,
And ^aiday and night
Shall not cease.”