Genesis 8:6-19 NKJV


Genesis 8:6-19 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters dried up from the earth.

He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

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.

And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

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.

So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

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.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wifes with you.

"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 be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wifes with him,

Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

Genesis 6:9-22 This is the genealogy of Noah, Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations, Noah walked with God.

And Noah begot three sons; Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

"Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

"And this is how you shall make it; The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits."You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

"And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth shall die.

"But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall go into the ark--you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

"And on every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

"Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

"And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."

Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.