Genesis 8 NKJV ISV Parallel

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1Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

1God kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God's Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside.

2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

2The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed.

3And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days.

4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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

5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

5The flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen.

6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

6After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built

7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

7and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth.

8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded,

9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

9but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him.

10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

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

11Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

11The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land.

12So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore.

13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

13In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying.

14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

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

15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

15God spoke to Noah,

16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark.

17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

17Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth."

18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

18So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged.

19Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups.

20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird.

21And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings—even though human inclinations remain evil from youth—nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.

22“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”

22"Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease."

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