| Chapter
8 |
| 1 | And God
remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him
in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters
assuaged; |
| 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 off the earth continually: and after the end of
the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. |
|
4 | And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5 | And the waters decreased continually
until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were
the tops of the mountains seen. |
| 6
| And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
window of the ark which he had made: |
|
7 | And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the
waters were dried up from off the earth. |
| 8 | Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters
were abated from off the face of the ground; |
| 9 | But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and
she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the
whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto
him into the ark. |
| 10 | And
he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark; |
| 11 | And the dove
came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked
off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. |
| 12 | And he stayed yet other seven
days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. |
| 13 | And it came to pass in
the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the
month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was
dry. |
| 14 | And in the
second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth
dried. |
| 15 | And God spake
unto 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 living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and
of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they
may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the
earth. |
| 18 | And Noah went
forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: |
| 19 | Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark. |
| 20 |
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of
every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. |
| 21 | And the LORD smelled a sweet savor;
and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither
will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. |
| 22 | While the earth remaineth,
seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and
night shall not cease. |
