Genesis 8

Noah's Test with Birds Genesis 8:5–12

⁵Verse 5. 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. ⁶Verse 6. At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, ⁷Verse 7. and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. ⁸Verse 8. He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, ⁹Verse 9. 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.

¹⁰Verse 10. He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. ¹¹Verse 11. 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. ¹²Verse 12. He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.

Earth Is Dried Genesis 8:13–14

¹³Verse 13. 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 dried. ¹⁴Verse 14. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

God's Command to Leave the Ark Genesis 8:15–19

¹⁵Verse 15. God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶Verse 16. “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁷Verse 17. 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.” ¹⁸Verse 18. Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. ¹⁹Verse 19. 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 Genesis 8:20–21

²⁰Verse 20. Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹Verse 21. Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh 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.

God's Covenant with Creation Genesis 8:22

²²Verse 22. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”