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Genesis 8 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Water Dries Up

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Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up [fn]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the [fn]surface of the ground was dried up.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:15 - Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 built an altar to Yahweh and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 all the days of the earth remain,

Seedtime and harvest,

And cold and heat,

And summer and winter,

And day and night

Shall not cease.”

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Lit from upon
Lit face
Lit the time of evening
Lit mouth
Lit from upon
Lit face
Or according to their kind
Or resting; related to Noah, cf. 5:29
Lit to His heart
Or inclination
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