Old Testament · Genesis

Genesis 8

The Ark Rests on Ararat

1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing^a, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind^b to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained. 3And the waters returned from upon the earth, going and returning; and the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5And the waters were going and decreasing ad(עד) the tenth month; in the tenth, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7And he sent forth the raven, and it went out, going out and returning, ad(עד) the waters were dried up from upon the earth.

8And he sent forth the dove from him, to see whether the waters had abated from upon the face of the ground^c. 9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him, to the ark, for the waters were upon the face of all the earth; and he put forth his hand and took her and brought her to him into the ark.

10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove from the ark. 11And the dove came in to him at the time of evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had abated from upon the earth.

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

Exiting the Ark

13And it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried from upon the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dried. 14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16"Go out from the ark, you and your woman^d and your sons and the women of your sons with you. 17Every living thing that is with you, of all flesh^e, of bird and of cattle and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, bring out with you; and let them swarm in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."

18And Noah went out, and his sons and his woman and the women of his sons with him. 19Every living thing, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, after their families, went out of the ark.

Noah Builds an Altar

20And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings upon the altar. 21And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more because of man^f, for the inclination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I will not again strike any more every living thing, as I have done.

22Yet all the days of the earth, seed and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."