Help QuickNav Adv. Options
RSV

RSV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Genesis 8 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:2 - the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ar'arat.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:6

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:15

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:20

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
RSV

Downloaded from the Oxford Text Archive and used with permission. The following header is required to be posted:

Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

Availability: Freely available for non-commercial use provided that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
RSV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
RSV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

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 New English Translation 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