The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

Genesis 8

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Torah

Genesis chapter 8 — part of the Torah in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “And G-d remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and G-d made a wind to pass…” — the complete text of all 22 verses is below, free to read online.

1And G-d remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and G-d made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.

10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day 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 dried.

14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

15And G-d spoke unto Noah, saying:

16'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may swarm in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.'

18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

19every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families; went forth out of the ark.

20And Noah builded an altar unto HaShem; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

21And HaShem smelled the sweet savour; and HaShem said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'

22 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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