THE BOOK OF GENESIS

 

Genesis Chapter eight

1 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

3 And the waters receded from the earth continually: and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased significantly.

4 ¶ And the ark came to rest 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, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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

7 And he sent out a raven, which went to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8 He also sent out a dove, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters covered the entire surface of the earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her into him in the ark.

10 And he waited seven more days; and again sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf: so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

12 And he waited seven more days; and again sent out the dove; which did not return to 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 surface of the ground was dry.

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

15 ¶ And 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 every living thing that is with you out, of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18 And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatever creeps upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

20 ¶ And Noah built an altar to 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 savor; 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 ever again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

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