Genesis · Berean Standard Bible
Genesis 8 Berean Standard Bible
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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.
1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
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.
5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship 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.
7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
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.
9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
10 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
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.
11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
12 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to 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.
13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
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.”
17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
18 So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives 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.
19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
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.
20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on 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.
21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
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Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 30:22; Genesis 19:29; Psalm 136:23; Exodus 2:24; 1 Samuel 1:19
- 2 Genesis 7:11; Matthew 8:26–27; Proverbs 8:28; Job 37:11–13; Matthew 8:9
- 3 Genesis 7:24; Genesis 7:11
- 4 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38; Jeremiah 51:27; Genesis 7:17–19
- 6 Genesis 6:16; Daniel 6:10
- 7 1 Kings 17:4; Job 38:41; Psalm 147:9; 1 Kings 17:6; Leviticus 11:15
- 8 Song of Songs 2:14; Song of Songs 1:15; Genesis 8:10–12; Matthew 10:16; Song of Songs 2:11–12
- 9 Psalm 116:7; Matthew 11:28; Deuteronomy 28:65; John 16:33; Isaiah 60:8
- 10 Genesis 7:4; Genesis 7:10; Psalm 40:1; Romans 8:25; Genesis 8:12
- 11 Nehemiah 8:15; Romans 10:15; Zechariah 4:12–14
- 12 Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 26:8; Isaiah 30:18; Genesis 8:10; Psalm 130:5–6
- 13 Genesis 7:11
- 14 Genesis 7:13–14; Genesis 7:11
- 16 Genesis 7:13; Psalm 121:8; Zechariah 9:11; Daniel 9:25–26; Psalm 91:11
- 17 Genesis 1:22; Genesis 9:1; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 31:27–28; Genesis 1:28
- 18 Psalm 121:8
- 20 Hebrews 13:15–16; Romans 12:1; Genesis 22:9; Genesis 12:7–8; Leviticus 11:1–47
- 21 2 Corinthians 2:15; Ephesians 5:2; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Isaiah 54:9–10
- 22 James 5:7; Jeremiah 5:24; Psalm 74:16–17; Jeremiah 31:35; Song of Songs 2:11–12
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And the waters decreased continually until the eleventh month: on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen." But if the months were such as we have, then so were the years.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For so with respect to the ark likewise, it is said, "The raven returned not till the earth was dried up." And yet it did not return even after that time.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And the sacrifice of the Greeks was rejected and condemned, but the sacrifice of the just was very acceptable to God. For Noah sacrificed, and God smelled a sweet savour, receiving the fragrance of the right choice and good-will towards Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
When, then, it was sent forth, it brought an olive branch; but it had not leaves alone, it had also fruit. This, then, we ought to wish for our brethren who are baptized outside, that they may have fruit; the dove will not permit them to remain outside, but bring them back to the ark.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
After the cessation of the flood, however, He said, Go forth of the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)