Genesis 8Book 1 of 66 · 22 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark, and God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
  2. The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
  3. The waters receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased.
  4. Then the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
  5. The waters continued to decrease steadily until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
  6. So it came to pass, after forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
  7. Then he sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
  8. He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.
  9. But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the surface of the whole earth, so he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark to himself.
  10. And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out from the ark.
  11. Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her beak; and Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
  12. So he waited yet another seven days and sent forth the dove, which did not return to him anymore.
  13. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold the surface of the ground was dry.
  14. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.
  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 cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be 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 creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark by their families.
  20. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took some of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  21. And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma, and the LORD said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again strike down every living thing as I have done."
  22. While the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.