1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 "Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, 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 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will 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。"