Chapter 8

And God remembered⁴ Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass⁵⁵ over the earth, and the waters asswaged;⁴

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped,¹¹ and the rain from heaven was restrained;¹¹

And the waters returned⁴ from off the earth continually:^{2 7725 2} and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.⁴

And the ark rested⁴ in the seventh month, on the seventeenth ⁷⁶⁵¹ day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters decreased² continually² until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.⁸

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened⁴ the window of the ark which he had made:¹

And he sent forth¹⁷ a raven, which went forth⁴ to² and fro,² until the waters were dried up² from off the earth.

Also he sent forth¹⁷ a dove from him, to see² if the waters were abated¹ from off the face of the ground;

But the dove found¹ no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned⁴ unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth⁴ his hand, and took her,⁴ and pulled her in⁵⁵ unto him into the ark.

And he stayed⁴ yet other seven days; and again⁵⁵ he sent forth¹⁵ the dove out of the ark;

And the dove came in⁴ to him in the evening; ⁶¹⁵³ and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew⁴ that the waters were abated¹ from off the earth.

And he stayed¹¹ yet other seven days; and sent forth¹⁷ the dove; which returned² not again¹ unto him any more.

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 up¹ from off the earth: and Noah removed⁵⁵ the covering of the ark, and looked,⁴ and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.¹

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.¹

And God spake¹⁷ unto Noah, saying,²

Go forth³ of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Bring forth⁵⁴ with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth⁶ upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly¹ in the earth, and be fruitful,¹ and multiply¹ upon the earth.

And Noah went forth,⁴ and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth⁶ upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth¹ out of the ark.

And Noah builded⁴ an altar unto the LORD; and took⁴ of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered⁵⁵ burnt offerings on the altar.

And the LORD smelled⁵⁵ a sweet savour; and the LORD said⁴ in his heart, I will not again⁵⁵ curse¹⁵ the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again⁵⁵ smite⁵³ any more every thing living, as I have done.¹

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.⁴