King James Version · full chapter
Genesis 8
22 verses · King James Version
- 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;Compare translations of Genesis 8:1
- 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;Compare translations of Genesis 8:2
- 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.Compare translations of Genesis 8:3
- 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.Compare translations of Genesis 8:4
- 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth on the first of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.Compare translations of Genesis 8:5
- 6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:Compare translations of Genesis 8:6
- 7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.Compare translations of Genesis 8:7
- 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;Compare translations of Genesis 8:8
- 9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters 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.Compare translations of Genesis 8:9
- 10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;Compare translations of Genesis 8:10
- 11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.Compare translations of Genesis 8:11
- 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.Compare translations of Genesis 8:12
- 13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first the first 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.Compare translations of Genesis 8:13
- 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.Compare translations of Genesis 8:14
- 15And God spake unto Noah, saying,Compare translations of Genesis 8:15
- 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.Compare translations of Genesis 8:16
- 17Bring forth with thee every living thing that with thee, of all flesh, 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.Compare translations of Genesis 8:17
- 18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:Compare translations of Genesis 8:18
- 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.Compare translations of Genesis 8:19
- 20And 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.Compare translations of Genesis 8:20
- 21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; 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 evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.Compare translations of Genesis 8:21
- 22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Compare translations of Genesis 8:22