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Genesis 8 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

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

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then 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 - By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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Genesis Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation 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