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Genesis 8 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - In Noah's six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:15 - Then God spoke to Noah and said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - "Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - Noah built an altar to the LORD. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - "While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
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Genesis Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras