Genesis 8

1 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 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5 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.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

9 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 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

11 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 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

13 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 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

15 Then God said to Noah,

16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

17 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 So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

20 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 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 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

1 Then God remembered Noah, and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the box, and caused the wind to come upon the earth, and the waters fell.

2 And the fountains of the deep were stopped up, and the windows of heaven; and the rain from heaven was withholden.

3 And the waters departed from the earth continually, and abated after the space of an hundred and fifty days.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh moon the caste settled upon mount Ararat.

5 And the waters passed away, and abated, until the tenth moon. On the first day of the tenth moon the tops of the mountains peeped out.

6 And it came to pass after forty days, that Noah opened the window of the box which he had made,

7 And he sent forth a raven, which flew to and fro, until the waters were dried up upon the earth.

8 And afterward he sent forth a dove, that he might know whether the waters were fallen upon the earth.

9 But when the dove found not where her foot could rest, she came again unto him into the coffer: for the waters were yet upon the whole face of the earth. And he put forth his hand, and took it unto him into the coffer.

10 And he tarried yet another seven days, and sent again a dove flying out of the box.

11 And she came to him about the time of supper, and, behold, she had broken an olive leaf, and bare it in her mouth. Then Noah heard that the waters were fallen upon the earth.

12 And he tarried yet other seven days, and sent forth a dove, which came not again to him.

13 In the six hundred and first year of Noah's age, in the first day of the first month, the waters of the earth dried up. Then Noah took the roof off the box, and saw that the ground was dry.

14 So the earth was wholly dry on the twenty and seventh day of the second month.

15 Then God spake unto Noah, saying:

16 Get thee out of the coffer, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Every beast that is with thee, of every flesh, of every fowl, and of every cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, come out with thee; and be ye fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

18 So Noah went forth with his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives;

19 And every beast, and every creeping thing, and every fowl, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, came out of the box, every one to his own kind.

20 And Noah built an altar unto the LORD, and took of all clean cattle, and of all clean fowls, and offered burnt offerings upon the altar.

21 And the LORD smelled the sweet savour, and said in his heart, I will curse the earth no more for man's sake: for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will smite no more every living thing, as I have done.

22 As long as the earth standeth, seed and harvest, frost and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.