Genesis 8 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - Genesis) Free Bible Online

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 deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 - The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

4 - The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

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 - At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

7 - and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8 - He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,