Genesis Chapter 8

¹ God remembered Noah and the animals in the ark. He made wind blow over the whole world, and the water started to recede. ² The fountains in the deep and the floodgates in the sky closed, and the rain stopped. ³ The water receded steadily for 150 days. ⁴ On the seventeenth day, seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ The water kept going down till the tenth month. The first day, tenth month, mountains became visible.                                                                                                  

Gen 8:1-5

            ⁶ After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark, ⁷ and sent out a raven that flew around till the water dried up. ⁸ Then he sent out a pigeon to see if the water had gone down, ⁹ but it didn’t find anywhere to land and came back. The water was still covering the ground. Noah held out his hand and brought the pigeon into the ark. ¹⁰ After a week he sent it out again. ¹¹ It came back toward evening with a new olive leaf in its beak; so Noah knew the water had gone down. ¹² Another week later he sent it out again, and it didn’t come back.

^13-14 On the first day, first month, 601^st year, the water had dried up. The twenty-seventh day, second month Noah took the roof off the ark and saw that the ground was dry. ¹⁵ God told him ¹⁶ to leave^pl the ark ¹⁷ and take the animals out so they could reproduce and multiply. ¹⁸ Noah’s family went out, ¹⁹ and the animals left the ark after their kind.                                         Gen 8:6-19   

Life After the Flood

²⁰ Noah built an altar to the LORD, took one from every ceremonially clean animal and bird, and offered burnt offerings on it. ²¹ The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said to himself,

“I’ll never curse the ground again because of people’s evil motives from their youth up. I’ll never destroy every living thing again. ²² As long as the world remains, there will be sowing time and harvest, heat and cold, summer and winter, day and night.”