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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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.
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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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.
8:3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 3 , The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
8:4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 4 , and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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.
8:6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 6 , After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 7 , and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8:8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 8 , Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
8:9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet 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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 9 , But the dove could find no place to set its feet 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.
8:10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 10 , He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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.
8:12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 12 , He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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.
8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 14 , By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
8:15 Then God said to Noah,
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 15 , Then God said to Noah,
8:16 'Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 16 , 'Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
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 upon it.'
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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 upon it.'
8:18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 18 , So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
8:19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ark, one kind after another.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 19 , All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ark, one kind after another.
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.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 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.
8:21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: 'Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 21 , The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: 'Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
8:22 'As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.'
The NIV Book of Genesis , Chapter 8 , Verse 22 , 'As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.'
