Genesis 8 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 God remembered Noah and all the wild and domestic animals with him in the ship. So God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to go down. But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
2 The deep springs and the sky had been shut, and the rain had stopped pouring. The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
3 The water began to recede from the land. At the end of 150 days the water had decreased. and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship came to rest in the mountains of Ararat. and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The water kept decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared. And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 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.
6 After 40 more days Noah opened the window he had made in the ship At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water on the land had dried up. and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8 Next, he sent out a dove to see if the water was gone from the surface of the ground. Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 The dove couldn't find a place to land because the water was still all over the earth. So it came back to Noah in the ship. He reached out and brought the dove back into the ship. But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and again sent the dove out of the ship. He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 The dove came to him in the evening, and in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the water was gone from the earth. And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12 He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but it never came back to him. Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water on the land had dried up. Noah opened the top of the ship, looked out, and saw the surface of the ground. In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, Then God said to Noah, Then God said to Noah,
16 |Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives. “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every animal that's with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth.| Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18 So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 Every animal, crawling creature, and bird-everything that moves on the earth-came out of the ship, one kind after another. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Noah built an altar to the LORD. On it he made a burnt offering of each type of clean animal and clean bird. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, |I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 As long as the earth exists, planting and harvesting, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never stop.| While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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