Genesis 8
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
The Flood Recedes
8 God remembered Noah,(A) as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth,(B) and the water began to subside. 2 The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.(C) 3 The water steadily receded from the earth, and at the end of the 150 days the water had decreased significantly.(D) 4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.(E)
5 The water continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. 6 After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down, 9 but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself. 10 So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again. 11 When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down. 12 After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again. 13 In the six hundred and first year,[a] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth had dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.
The Lord’s Promise
15 Then God spoke to Noah, 16 ‘Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you – birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth – and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”(F) 18 So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out. 19 All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures – everything that moves on the earth – came out of the ark by their families.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,(G) he said to himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground(H) because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward.(I) And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.(J)
22 As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.’(K)
Footnotes
- 8:13 = of Noah’s life
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
Gênesis 8
Nova Versão Transformadora
As águas do dilúvio baixam
8 Então Deus se lembrou de Noé e de todos os animais selvagens e domésticos que estavam com ele na arca. Deus fez soprar um vento sobre a terra, e as águas do dilúvio começaram a baixar. 2 As fontes subterrâneas pararam de jorrar, e as chuvas torrenciais cessaram. 3 As águas do dilúvio foram baixando aos poucos. Depois de 150 dias, 4 exatamente cinco meses depois do início do dilúvio,[a] a arca repousou sobre as montanhas de Ararate. 5 Dois meses e meio depois,[b] à medida que as águas continuaram a baixar, apareceram os picos de outras montanhas.
6 Passados mais quarenta dias, Noé abriu a janela que havia feito na arca 7 e soltou um corvo, que ia e voltava até as águas do dilúvio secarem sobre a terra. 8 Noé também soltou uma pomba para ver se as águas tinham baixado e se ela encontraria terra seca, 9 mas a pomba não encontrou lugar para pousar, pois a água ainda cobria todo o solo. Então a pomba retornou à arca, e Noé estendeu a mão e a trouxe de volta para dentro. 10 Depois de esperar mais sete dias, Noé soltou a pomba mais uma vez. 11 Quando ela voltou ao entardecer, trouxe no bico uma folha nova de oliveira. Noé concluiu que restava pouca água do dilúvio. 12 Esperou outros sete dias e soltou a pomba novamente. Dessa vez, ela não voltou.
13 Noé tinha completado 601 anos. No primeiro dia do novo ano, dez meses e meio depois do início do dilúvio,[c] quase não havia mais água sobre a terra. Noé levantou a cobertura da arca e viu que o solo estava praticamente seco. 14 Mais dois meses se passaram[d] e, por fim, a terra estava completamente seca.
15 Então Deus disse a Noé: 16 “Saiam da arca, você, sua mulher, seus filhos e as mulheres deles. 17 Solte todos os animais, as aves, os animais domésticos e os animais que rastejam pelo chão, para que sejam férteis e se multipliquem na terra”.
18 Noé, sua mulher, seus filhos e as mulheres deles desembarcaram. 19 Todos os animais, grandes e pequenos, e as aves saíram da arca, um casal de cada vez.
20 Em seguida, Noé construiu um altar ao Senhor e ali ofereceu como holocaustos alguns animais e aves puros. 21 O aroma do sacrifício agradou ao Senhor, que disse consigo: “Nunca mais amaldiçoarei a terra por causa do ser humano, embora todos os seus pensamentos e seus propósitos se inclinem para o mal desde a infância. Nunca mais destruirei todos os seres vivos. 22 Enquanto durar a terra, haverá plantio e colheita, frio e calor, verão e inverno, dia e noite”.
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