Genesis 8

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The Ark Rests on Ararat

¹But 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.

¹And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

²The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

²And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

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

³And the waters turned back from the earth, going and returning, and the waters decreased at the end of fifty and a hundred days.

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

⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seven and tenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

⁵And 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.

⁵And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month, and in the tenth month on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

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

⁶And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

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

⁷and he sent forth the raven and it went out, going out and returning, until the waters had dried up from the earth.

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

⁸And he sent forth the dove from himself to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

⁹But 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.

⁹And the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark; for the waters were still on the face of all the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself in the ark.

¹⁰Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

¹⁰And he waited yet another seven days, and he again sent forth the dove from the ark.

¹¹And 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.

¹¹And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

¹²And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

¹²And he waited yet another seven days and he sent forth the dove, and she did not continue to return to him again.

Exiting the Ark

¹³In 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.

¹³And it came to pass in the one and six hundredth year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and he looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

¹⁴By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

¹⁴And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

¹⁵Then God said to Noah,

¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying,

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

¹⁶“Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and the wives of your sons with you.

¹⁷Bring 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.”

¹⁷Every living thing that is with you—all flesh, the bird, and the livestock, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth—bring out with you, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

¹⁸So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

¹⁸And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

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

¹⁹And every animal, every crawling thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, they went forth from the ark.

Noah Builds an Altar

²⁰Then 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.

²⁰And Noah built an altar to YHWH. And he took from every clean animal and from every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹When 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.

²¹And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in His heart, “I will not continue to curse anymore the ground on account of mankind, though the inclination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. I will not continue anymore to destroy every living thing, as I have done.

²²As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

shall never cease.”

²²Throughout all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”