CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 8 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Genesis 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/7.htm" title="Genesis 7">◄</a> Genesis 8 <a href="../genesis/9.htm" title="Genesis 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The End of the Flood</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_8_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.1" class="v0_8_1">1</span>God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down. </span><span class="v0_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.2" class="v0_8_2">2</span>The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped, </span><span class="v0_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.3" class="v0_8_3">3</span>and the water gradually went down for 150 days. </span><span class="v0_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.4" class="v0_8_4">4</span>On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range. </span><span class="v0_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.5" class="v0_8_5">5</span>The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.6" class="v0_8_6">6</span>After forty days Noah opened a window </span><span class="v0_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.7" class="v0_8_7">7</span>and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone. </span><span class="v0_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.8" class="v0_8_8">8</span>Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down, </span><span class="v0_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.9" class="v0_8_9">9</span>but since the water still covered all the land, the dove did not find a place to light. It flew back to the boat, and Noah reached out and took it in. </span><span class="v0_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.10" class="v0_8_10">10</span>He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again. </span><span class="v0_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.11" class="v0_8_11">11</span>It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down. </span><span class="v0_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.12" class="v0_8_12">12</span>Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_8_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.13" class="v0_8_13">13</span>When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry. </span><span class="v0_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.14" class="v0_8_14">14</span>By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_8_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.15" class="v0_8_15">15</span>God said to Noah, </span><span class="v0_8_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.16" class="v0_8_16">16</span>“Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives. </span><span class="v0_8_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.17" class="v0_8_17">17</span>Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth.” </span><span class="v0_8_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.18" class="v0_8_18">18</span>So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives. </span><span class="v0_8_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.19" class="v0_8_19">19</span>All the animals and birds went out of the boat in groups of their own kind.</span></p><h3 class="s">Noah Offers a Sacrifice</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_8_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.20" class="v0_8_20">20</span>Noah built an altar to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar. </span><span class="v0_8_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.21" class="v0_8_21">21</span>The odor of the sacrifice pleased the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, and he said to himself, “Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time. </span><span class="v0_8_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.8.22" class="v0_8_22">22</span>As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . Discover .BIBLE resources for your ministry at <a href="http://www.get.bible/gnt">www.get.bible/gnt</a></span></p><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/genesis/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>