Genesis 8:1-19

Genesis 8:1-19

[1] And God  remembered  Noah,  and every living thing,  and all the cattle  that was with him in the ark:  and God  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  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,  wives  [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  [19] Every beast,  every creeping thing,  and every fowl,  and whatsoever  creepeth  upon the earth,  after their kinds,  went forth  out of the ark.