Genesis 8

1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Now God remembred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: therefore God made a winde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceased.

2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,

3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

And in the seuenth moneth, in the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the Arke rested vpon the mountaines of Ararat.

5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

And the waters were going and decreasing vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth were the toppes of the mountaines seene.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,

7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.

9 But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote: therefore she returned vnto him into the Arke (for the waters were vpon the whole earth) and he put forth his hand, and receiued her, and tooke her to him into the Arke.

10 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.

11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

And the doue came to him in ye euening, and loe, in her mouth was an oliue leafe that she had pluckt: whereby Noah knewe that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

Notwithstanding he wayted yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.

13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

And in the second moneth, in the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

15 Then God said to Noah,

Then God spake to Noah, saying,

16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

Goe forth of the Arke, thou and thy wife, and thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee.

17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite and increase vpon ye earth.

18 So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.

19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar.

21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

And the Lord smellled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.

22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Hereafter seede time and haruest, and colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark