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God’s Spirit<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:1 Or wind">b</a></span> moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the flood waters steadily receded,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:3 Lit. receded from the dry land">c</a></span> diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:4 i.e. ancient Urartu">d</a></span> on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Later, he sent a dove out from the ark<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:8 Lit. from his presence">e</a></span> to see whether the water that covered the land’s surface had completely<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:8 The Heb. lacks completely">f</a></span> receded, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but the dove could not yet find a place to rest,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:9 Lit. rest for its foot">g</a></span> so it returned to Noah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:9 Lit. him">h</a></span> on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:9 Lit. took it">i</a></span> into the ark with him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Noah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:10 Lit. He">j</a></span> waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In the six hundred and first year of Noah’s life,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:13 The Heb. lacks of Noah’s life">k</a></span> during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry.</p> <p class="heading">The LORD’s Covenant</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>God spoke to Noah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“It’s time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives who are with you to leave the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives emerged. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:19 Lit. by their groups">l</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:20 Lit. on the altar">m</a></span> from every clean animal and every clean bird. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, “I will never again curse the land because of human beings—even though human inclinations remain evil from youth—nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I’ve done.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Never<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:22 The Heb. lacks Never">n</a></span> again, as long as the earth exists,</p> <p class="poetry2">will sowing and harvest,</p> <p class="poetry2">cold and heat,</p> <p class="poetry2">summer and winter,</p> <p class="poetry2">and day and night ever cease.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 8:1 I.e., non-domesticated animals, as opposed to domesticated livestock<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 8:1 Or <i>wind</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 8:3 Lit. <i>receded from the dry land</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 8:4 i.e. ancient Urartu<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 8:8 Lit. <i>from his presence</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 8:8 The Heb. lacks <i>completely</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 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