{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/genesis/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:47:04.614Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that <i>was</i> with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth <i>month</i>, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters <i>were</i> on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth <i>was</i> an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first <i>month</i>, the first <i>day</i> of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And God spake unto Noah, saying,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Bring forth with thee every living thing that <i>is</i> with thee, of all flesh, <i>both</i> of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, <i>and</i> whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart <i>is</i> evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 8 (KJV)","markdown":"[Genesis 8](https://primebible.com/kjv/genesis/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/genesis/8 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}