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Genesis 8 is the eighth chapter of Genesis, and therefore of the Hebrew Bible. It comes after Genesis 7 and before Genesis 9.
1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and every animal which was with him in the ark, and God made a wind pass across the earth, and the waters sank down. 2 And the fountains of tehom and the windows of the sky were closed, and rain was restrained from the earth. 3 And the water returned from upon the earth steadily, and at the end of one hundred fifty days the water decreased. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued decreasing until the tenth month. In the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the mountain-tops appeared.
6 And then, at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he sent out a raven, and it went out back and forth until the waters were dried up from upon the earth. 8 And he sent out a dove that was with him, to see if the waters were abated from the face of the ground. 9 And the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were upon the face of the whole earth. And he stretched out his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark. 10 And he waited another seven days, and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And 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 were abated from the earth. 12 And he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him any more.
13 Then in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go out from the ark: you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 17 Every living thing with you of all flesh, of birds, and of livestock, and of all crawling things that crawl on the earth -- bring them out with you, and let them swarm upon the earth, and let them be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went out with his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. 19 Every living thing, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that crawls on the earth by their families, went out from the ark.
20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took some of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing scent, and Yahweh said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground any more for the sake of humankind, because every thought of humankind is evil from their youth. And I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done. 22 As long as earth remains, sowing and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter will not cease.