# Genesis 8 (New King James Version)
Noah's Deliverance

##### Chapter 8
###### 1 Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that _were_ with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.  
###### 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.  
###### 3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end 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 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, 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 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 altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  
###### 21 And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart _is_ evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

###### 22 "While the earth remains,  
Seedtime and harvest,  
Cold and heat,  
Winter and summer,  
And day and night  
Shall not cease."