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Genesis 8 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Flood Subsides

Gen 8:1

Gen 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

Gen 8:2

Gen 8:2Also the fountains of the deep and the [fn]floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

Gen 8:3

Gen 8:3and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.

Gen 8:4

Gen 8:4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

Gen 8:5

Gen 8:5The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

Gen 8:6

Gen 8:6Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

Gen 8:7

Gen 8:7and he sent out a raven, and it [fn]flew here and there until the water was dried up [fn]from the earth.

Gen 8:8

Gen 8:8Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;

Gen 8:9

Gen 8:9but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the [fn]surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.

Gen 8:10

Gen 8:10So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

Gen 8:11

Gen 8:11The dove came to him toward [fn]evening, and behold, in her [fn]beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.

Gen 8:12

Gen 8:12Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again.

Gen 8:13

Gen 8:13Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up [fn]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the [fn]surface of the ground was dried up.

Gen 8:14

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

Gen 8:15

Gen 8:15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

Gen 8:16

Gen 8:16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Gen 8:17

Gen 8:17“Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may [fn]breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Gen 8:18

Gen 8:18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

Gen 8:19

Gen 8:19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out [fn]by their families from the ark.

Gen 8:20

Gen 8:20Then 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.

Gen 8:21

Gen 8:21The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said [fn]to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the [fn]intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again [fn]destroy every living thing, as I have done.

Gen 8:22

Gen 8:22“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
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NASB95 Footnotes
Or, windows of the heavens
Literally: went out, going and returning
Literally: from upon
Literally: face
Literally: the time of evening
Literally: mouth
Literally: from upon
Literally: face
Or, swarm
Or, according to their kind
Literally: to His heart
Or, inclination
Literally: smite
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