Genesis Chapter 8

Genesis Chapter 8
1 Now God remembered Noah and
every beast, and all the cattle that was
with him in the ark: therefore God made
a wind to pass upon the earth, and the
waters ceased.
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 above
the earth, going and returning: and after
the end of the hundred and fiftieth day
the waters abated. 4 And in the seventh
month, in the seventeenth day of the
month, the ark rested upon the mountains
of Ararat.
5 And the waters were going and
decreasing until the tenth month: in the
tenth month, and in the first day of the
month were the tops of the mountains
seen.
6 So after forty days, Noah opened the
window of the ark, which he had made,
7 And sent forth a raven, which went out
going forth and returning, until the
waters were dried up upon the earth.
8 Again he sent a dove from him, that he
might see if the waters were diminished
from off the earth.
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole
of her foot: therefore she returned unto
him into the ark (for the waters were
upon the whole earth) and he put forth
his hand, and took her, and took her to
him into the ark. 10 And he abode yet
other seven days, and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark.
11 And the dove came to him in the
evening, and lo, in her mouth was an
olive leaf that she had plucked: whereby
Noah knew that the waters were abated
from off the earth.
12 Notwithstanding he waited yet other
seven days, and sent forth the dove,
which returned not again unto him any
more.
13 And in the six hundredth and one
year, in the first day of the first month
the waters were dried up from off the
earth: and Noah removed the covering of
the ark and looked, and behold, the
upper part of the ground was dry. 14
And in the second month, in the seven
and twentieth day of the month was the
earth dry.
15 Then God spake to 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 beast that
is with thee, of all flesh, both foul and
cattle, and every thing that creepeth and
moveth upon the earth, that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and bring
forth fruit and increase upon the earth.
18 So Noah came forth, and his sons,
and his wife, and his sons’ wives with
him.
19 Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every foul, all that moveth upon the
earth after their kinds went out of the
ark.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord
and took of every clean beast, and of
every clean foul, and offered burnt
offerings upon the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a savor of rest,
and the Lord said in his heart, I will
henceforth curse the ground no more for
man’s cause: for the imagination of
man’s heart is evil, even from his youth:
neither will I smite any more all things
living, as I have done.
22 Hereafter seed time and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter,
and day and night shall not cease, so
long as the earth remaineth.