Genesis 8
Expanded Bible
The Flood Ends
8 But God remembered Noah and all the ·wild [beasts] and ·tame animals [cattle] with him in the ·boat [ark]. He made a wind ·blow [pass] over the earth, and the water ·went down [subsided]. 2 The ·underground springs [L fountains/springs of the deep] stopped flowing, and the ·clouds [floodgates; L windows] in the ·sky [heavens] ·stopped pouring down rain [L were closed and the rain from the sky/heavens were restrained].
6 Forty days later Noah opened the ·window [hatch] he had made in the ·boat [ark], and 7 he sent out a raven. It ·flew [L went] here and there until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then Noah sent out a dove to find out if the water had ·dried up [subsided] from the ground. 9 The dove could not find a place to ·land [L set/rest its foot] because water still covered the earth, so it came back to the ·boat [ark]. Noah reached out his hand and took the bird and brought it back into the boat.
10 After [L waiting] seven days Noah again sent out the dove from the ·boat [ark], 11 and that evening it came back to him with a fresh olive leaf in its ·mouth [beak]. Then Noah knew that the ·ground was almost dry [L waters had subsided from the ground]. 12 ·Seven days later [L After waiting another seven days] he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not come back.
13 When Noah was six hundred and one years old, in the first day of the first month of that year, the water was dried up from the ·land [earth]. Noah removed the covering of the ·boat [ark] and saw that the ·land [L face of the ground] was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the ·land [earth] was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “You and your wife, your sons, and their wives should go out of the ·boat [ark]. 17 Bring every ·animal [L living thing of all flesh] out of the ·boat [ark] with you—the birds, ·animals [beasts; livestock], and everything that crawls on the earth. ·Let them have many young ones so that they might […so they may swarm on earth and be fruitful and] ·grow in number [multiply; 1:22].”
18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. 19 Every ·animal [living thing], everything that ·crawls [creeps] on the earth, and every bird [L and everything that crawls/creeps] went out of the ·boat [ark] by families.
20 Then Noah built an altar [C a place to offer sacrifices] to the Lord. He took some of all the clean [C in a ritual sense] birds and ·animals [beasts; livestock], and he ·burned them on the altar as offerings to God [L offered a whole burnt offering on the altar; Lev. 1]. 21 The Lord ·was pleased with these sacrifices [L smelled the sweet savor/smell] and said ·to himself [L in his heart], “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. ·Their thoughts [The inclination of their hearts] are evil even ·when [from the time] they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.
22 “As long as the earth continues,
planting and harvest,
cold and hot,
summer and winter,
day and night
will not stop.”
Génesis 8
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Fin del diluvio
8 Entonces, Dios se acordó de Noé y de todos los animales, tanto de los salvajes como de los domésticos, que estaban con él en el arca; hizo pasar un viento fuerte sobre la tierra, y el nivel de las aguas comenzó a descender. 2 Se cerraron las fuentes del océano y las compuertas del cielo, y la lluvia cesó. 3 Poco a poco las aguas se fueron retirando de la tierra y, al cabo de ciento cincuenta días, ya había descendido tanto el nivel 4 que el día diecisiete del mes séptimo el arca encalló sobre las montañas de Ararat. 5 Las aguas continuaron bajando paulatinamente hasta el mes décimo; y el primer día de ese mes asomaron los picos de las montañas.
6 Transcurridos cuarenta días, Noé abrió la ventana que había hecho en el arca 7 y soltó un cuervo que voló de acá para allá, hasta que se secaron las aguas sobre la tierra. 8 Después soltó una paloma para comprobar si las aguas ya habían bajado del todo; 9 pero la paloma no encontró dónde posarse y regresó al arca, pues la tierra aún estaba cubierta por las aguas. Así que Noé sacó la mano, tomó la paloma y la metió consigo en el arca.
10 Esperó siete días más y volvió a soltar la paloma desde el arca. 11 Al atardecer, la paloma regresó portando en su pico una rama de olivo recién arrancada. Noé comprendió que las aguas iban desapareciendo. 12 Esperó siete días más y volvió a soltar la paloma, pero esta vez ya no volvió.
13 En el año seiscientos uno de la vida de Noé, el día primero del primer mes, las aguas que cubrían la superficie de la tierra se secaron. Noé levantó la cubierta del arca, miró y descubrió que la tierra ya estaba seca. 14 Para el día veintisiete del mes segundo, la tierra estaba ya completamente seca.
Noé sale del arca
15 Entonces dijo Dios a Noé:
16 — Sal del arca, tú, tu mujer, tus hijos y tus nueras. 17 Saca también a todos los animales que están contigo: aves, ganados y reptiles. ¡Que sean fecundos! ¡Que se reproduzcan y pueblen la tierra!
18 Salió, pues, Noé con sus hijos, su mujer y sus nueras; 19 y con todos los animales: ganados, aves y reptiles. Todos los animales salieron del arca agrupados por especies.
20 Noé construyó un altar al Señor, tomó animales y aves de toda especie pura, y los ofreció en holocausto sobre el altar. 21 Cuando el Señor aspiró el grato aroma se dijo: “Aunque las intenciones del ser humano son perversas desde su juventud, nunca más volveré a maldecir la tierra por su culpa. Jamás volveré a destruir a todos los seres vivientes, como acabo de hacerlo.
22 Mientras el mundo exista
no han de faltar
siembra y cosecha,
frío y calor,
verano e invierno,
día y noche”.
Genesis 8
New King James Version
Noah’s Deliverance
8 Then God (A)remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. (B)And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 (C)The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also (D)stopped, and (E)the rain from heaven was restrained. 3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end (F)of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened (G)the window of the ark which he had made. 7 Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. 8 He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. 10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. 11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, (H)you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and (I)be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
God’s Covenant with Creation
20 Then Noah built an (J)altar to the Lord, and took of (K)every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered (L)burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled (M)a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again (N)curse the ground for man’s sake, although the (O)imagination[a] of man’s heart is evil from his youth; (P)nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22 “While the earth (Q)remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And (R)day and night
Shall not cease.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 8:21 intent or thought
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