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title: Genesis 8
slug: kjv/genesis-8
createdAt: 2024-07-17T03:34:47.649Z
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**1 **And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that *was* with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; **2 **The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; **3 **And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. **4 **And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. **5 **And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth *month*, on the first *day* of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

**6 **And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: **7 **And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. **8 **Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; **9 **But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters *were* on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. **10 **And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; **11 **And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth *was* an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. **12 **And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

**13 **And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first *month*, the first *day* of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. **14 **And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. **15 **And God spake unto Noah, saying, **16 **Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. **17 **Bring forth with thee every living thing that *is* with thee, of all flesh, *both* of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. **18 **And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: **19 **Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, *and* whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

**20 **And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. **21 **And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart *is* evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

**22 **While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.