The Ark Rests on Ararat 1 UDB But God did not forget about Noah, or about all the wild animals and all the kinds of domestic animals that were with him in the boat. So one day God sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the wind caused the water to begin to recede. BSB BSB: But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 UDB God caused the water that was under the earth to stop bursting out, and he caused the floodgates of water from the sky to close so that it stopped raining. BSB BSB: The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 UDB The water on the earth gradually receded. By one hundred fifty days after the flood began, much of the water was gone. BSB BSB: The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 UDB On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the boat came to rest on one of the mountains in the region of Ararat. BSB BSB: On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 UDB The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month of that year, the tops of other mountains became visible. BSB BSB: And 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.
Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove 6 UDB Forty days later, Noah opened the window that he had made in the side of the boat, and sent out a raven. BSB BSB: After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 UDB The raven flew back and forth to and from the boat until the water dried up from the surface of the ground. BSB BSB: and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8 UDB Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had all receded from the surface of the ground. BSB BSB: Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 UDB But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat. BSB BSB: But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
10 UDB Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again. BSB BSB: Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 UDB This time the dove returned to him in the evening and, surprisingly, there was a leaf from an olive tree that the dove had just plucked in its beak. Then Noah knew that the water had truly receded from the surface of the ground. BSB BSB: And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12 UDB Noah waited again seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. BSB BSB: And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Exiting the Ark 13 UDB Noah was now 601 years old. By the first day of the first month of that year, the water had completely drained away from the ground. Noah removed the covering on top of the boat, and he was surprised to see that the surface of the ground was drying. BSB BSB: In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 UDB By the twenty-seventh day of the next month, the ground was completely dry. BSB BSB: By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
15 UDB Then God said to Noah, BSB BSB: Then God said to Noah,
16 UDB "Leave the boat, along with your wife, your sons, and their wives. BSB BSB: “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
17 UDB Bring out with you all the birds, the domestic animals, and all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground, in order that they can spread all over the earth and become very numerous." BSB BSB: Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
18 UDB So Noah left the boat, along with his wife, his sons, and their wives. BSB BSB: So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 UDB Then all the creatures, including all those that move close to the ground, all the birds, and every animal that moves on the earth, left the boat. They left the boat in groups of their own kind. BSB BSB: Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
Noah Builds an Altar 20 UDB Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the animals and birds that were acceptable as sacrifices and killed them. Then he burned them whole on the altar. BSB BSB: Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 UDB When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, "I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though all that people think in their minds is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living beings again, as I did this time. BSB BSB: When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
22 UDB As long as the earth exists, the seasons for planting seeds and seasons for harvesting crops, the times when it is cold and times when it is hot, the summer and winter, the daytime and nighttime will continue." BSB BSB: As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”