Verse 8
Genesis 8:8
Free Bible Version
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When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the floodwaters were mainly gone from the earth.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת הַ/יּוֹנָ֖ה מֵ/אִתּ֑/וֹ לִ/רְאוֹת֙ הֲ/קַ֣לּוּ הַ/מַּ֔יִם מֵ/עַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָֽ/אֲדָמָֽה
English Translation
And he sent the dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the surface of the ground.
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Chapter 8 Context
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But God (Elohim) hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the...
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The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped.
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The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after t...
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the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh mon...
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Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,
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and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.
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But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was st...
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When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew...
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Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to hi...
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By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone...
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Then God (Elohim) told Noah,
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“Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.
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Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that...
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So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark.
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All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on...
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Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering.
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The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because o...
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As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night,...
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