The First Book of Moses: Genesis

⭑ Literal Standard Version :: World English Bible Catholic ⭑

- Chapter 8 -

And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.

And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

and the waters have been going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the heads of the mountains appeared.

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,

and he sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.

And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the Ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the Ark.

And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;

and the dove comes to him at evening, and behold, an olive leaf [is] torn off in her mouth; and Noah knows that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.

Exiting the Ark

And it comes to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turns aside the covering of the Ark, and looks, and behold, the face of the ground has been dried.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become dry.

And God speaks to Noah, saying, “Go out from the Ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you;

every living thing that [is] with you, of all flesh, among bird, and among livestock, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with you;

and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”

And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;

every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the Ark.

Noah Builds an Altar

And Noah builds an altar to YHWH, and takes from every clean beast and from every clean bird, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

and YHWH smells the refreshing fragrance, and YHWH says to His heart, “I do not continue to disfavor the ground because of man anymore, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I do not continue to strike all living anymore, as I have done;

during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease.”

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

Exiting the Ark

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

God spoke to Noah, saying,

“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Noah Builds an Altar

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.

The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”