Verse 5

Genesis 8:5

Free Bible Version

5 Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/הַ/מַּ֗יִם הָיוּ֙ הָל֣וֹךְ וְ/חָס֔וֹר עַ֖ד הַ/חֹ֣דֶשׁ הָֽ/עֲשִׂירִ֑י בָּֽ/עֲשִׂירִי֙ בְּ/אֶחָ֣ד לַ/חֹ֔דֶשׁ נִרְא֖וּ רָאשֵׁ֥י הֶֽ/הָרִֽים

English Translation

And the waters were going on and diminishing until the tenth month; on the first day of the month the tops of the mountains were seen.

AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini

✓ Bookmark

Done.

Chapter 8 Context

1 But God (Elohim) hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the... Focus ↗

2 The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped. Focus ↗

3 The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after t... Focus ↗

4 the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh mon... Focus ↗

5 Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,

6 and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up. Focus ↗

7 But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was st... Focus ↗

8 When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew... Focus ↗

9 Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to hi... Focus ↗

10 By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone... Focus ↗

11 Then God (Elohim) told Noah, Focus ↗

12 “Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives. Focus ↗

13 Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that... Focus ↗

14 So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark. Focus ↗

15 All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on... Focus ↗

16 Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering. Focus ↗

17 The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because o... Focus ↗

18 As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night,... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Compare This Verse Across Bibles

Navigate Verse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18