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Genesis 8 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Water Dries Up

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Then God^H430 remembered^H2142 Noah^H5146 and all^H3605 the beasts^H2416 and all^H3605 the cattle^H929 that were with him in the ark^H8392; and God^H430 caused a wind^H7307 to pass^H5674 over^H5921 the earth^H776, and the water^H4325 subsided^H7918.

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Gen 8:2 - Also the fountains of the deep and the [fn]floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

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Gen 8:3 - and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.

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Gen 8:4 - In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

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Gen 8:5 - Now the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

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Then it happened^H1961 at the end^H7093 of forty^H705 days^H3117, that Noah^H5146 opened^H6605 the window^H2474 of the ark^H8392 which^H834 he had made^H6213;

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Gen 8:7 - and he sent out a raven, and it went out flying back and forth until the water was dried up [fn]from the earth.

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Gen 8:8 - Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;

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Gen 8:9 - but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the [fn]surface of all the earth. Then he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark to himself.

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Gen 8:10 - Then he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

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Gen 8:11 - And the dove came to him toward [fn]evening, and behold, in its [fn]beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.

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Gen 8:12 - Then he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again.

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Now it happened^H1961 in the six^H8337 hundred^H3967 and first^H259 year^H8141, in the first^H7223 month, on the first^H259 of the month^H2320, the water^H4325 was dried^H2717 up^H2717 [fn]from the earth^H776. Then Noah^H5146 removed^H5493 the covering^H4372 of the ark^H8392 and looked^H7200, and behold^H2009, the [fn]surface^H6440 of the ground^H127 was dried^H2717 up^H2717.

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Gen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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Gen 8:15 - Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

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Gen 8:16 - “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

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Gen 8:17 - “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and that they may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

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Gen 8:18 - So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

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Gen 8:19 - Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out [fn]by their families from the ark.

Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

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Then Noah^H5146 built^H1129 an altar^H4196 to Yahweh^H3068 and took^H3947 of every^H3605 clean^H2889 animal^H929 and of every^H3605 clean^H2889 bird^H5775 and offered^H5927 burnt^H5930 offerings^H5930 on the altar^H4196.

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Gen 8:21 - And Yahweh smelled the [fn]soothing aroma; and Yahweh said [fn]to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the [fn]intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

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“While^H5750 all^H3605 the days^H3117 of the earth^H776 remain,

Seedtime^H2233 and harvest^H7105,

And cold^H7120 and heat^H2527,

And summer^H7019 and winter^H2779,

And day^H3117 and night^H3915

Shall not cease^H7673.”

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LSB Footnotes

(8:2)

Or windows of the heavens

(8:7)

Lit from upon

(8:9)

Lit face

(8:11)

Lit the time of evening

Lit mouth

Lit from upon

Lit face

Or according to their kind

(8:21)

Or resting; related to Noah, cf. 5:29

(8:21)

Lit to His heart

(8:21)

Or inclination

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