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Genesis 8:1-22 — The Flood Recedes

Gen.8.1-22

¹But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark, and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. ²The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed up, and the rain from the heavens was restrained. ³The waters receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased. ⁴And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵The waters continued to decrease steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. ⁶At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, ⁷and he sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. ⁸Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. ⁹But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for waters were upon the surface of the whole earth. So he reached out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark. ¹⁰He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹The dove came to him at evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. ¹²Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again. ¹³In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dry. ¹⁴And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was fully dry. ¹⁵Then God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶"Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁷Bring out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." ¹⁸So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. ¹⁹Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves on the earth—went out from the ark by their families. ²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and he took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in His heart, "I will not again curse the ground because of man, for the inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth, and I will not again strike down every living thing as I have done. ²²For all the remaining days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat , and summer and autumn , and day and night, shall not cease."

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4/11/2026

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