Genesis 8 (NET)

Genesis 8:1¹But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:22Gen 19:29Ps 136:23Exod 2:241 Sam 1:19Ps 106:4Amos 8:7Exod 14:21Ps 132:1Hab 3:2

Genesis 8:2²The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 7:11Matt 8:26-27Prov 8:28Job 37:11-13Job 38:37Jonah 2:3Matt 8:9

Genesis 8:3³The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 7:24Gen 7:11

Genesis 8:4⁴On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:37Isa 37:38Jer 51:27Gen 7:17-19

Genesis 8:5⁵The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 8:6⁶At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the arkCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 6:16Dan 6:10

Genesis 8:7⁷and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:41 Kgs 17:6Job 38:41Ps 147:9Lev 11:15

Genesis 8:8⁸Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 2:14Gen 8:10-12Matt 10:16Song 1:15Song 2:11-12

Genesis 8:9⁹The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:28Ps 116:7Deut 28:65John 16:33Isa 60:8Ezek 7:16

Genesis 8:10¹⁰He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 7:4Gen 7:10Gen 8:12Isa 26:8Isa 8:17Ps 40:1Rom 8:25

Genesis 8:11¹¹When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 8:15Rom 10:15Zech 4:12-14

Genesis 8:12¹²He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 8:10Isa 25:9Isa 26:8Isa 30:18Gen 2:2-3Isa 8:17Jas 5:7-8Ps 130:5-6Ps 27:14Hab 2:3

Genesis 8:13¹³In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 7:11

Genesis 8:14¹⁴And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 7:13-14Gen 7:11

Genesis 8:15¹⁵Then God spoke to Noah and said,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 8:16¹⁶“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 7:13Ps 121:8Zech 9:11Acts 16:37-39Dan 9:25-26Gen 7:1Gen 7:7Josh 3:17Josh 4:10Josh 4:16-18

Genesis 8:17¹⁷Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 1:22Gen 9:1Jer 31:27-28Ps 107:38Gen 1:28Gen 7:14-15Gen 9:7Ps 144:13-14

Genesis 8:18¹⁸Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 121:8

Genesis 8:19¹⁹Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 8:20²⁰Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:15-16Rom 12:1Gen 22:9Gen 12:7-81 Pet 2:9Lev 11:1-471 Pet 2:5Exod 10:25Exod 24:4-8Gen 13:4

Genesis 8:21²¹And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 2:15Eph 5:2Gen 6:5Jer 17:9Isa 54:9-10Rom 3:23Eccl 7:20Ezek 20:41Gen 3:17Lev 1:13

Genesis 8:22²²“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:7Ps 74:16-17Jer 5:24Jer 31:35Song 2:11-12Jer 33:20-26Exod 34:21Isa 54:8-9Gen 45:6