Genesis 8

1 And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

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 And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

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

3 And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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 And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

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

5 And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

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 And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

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

7 And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.

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

8 And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.

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

9 And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into 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 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth 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 the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off 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 having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

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

13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

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 And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.

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

15 And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

Then God spake to Noah, saying,

16 Come out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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

17 And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase you and multiply upon the earth.

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 And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

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

19 And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.

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

20 And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon 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 And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh 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 All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

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