Genesis 8 | New International Version

New International Version

1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. 6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying to and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 ‘Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you – the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground – so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.’ 18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds – everything that moves on land – came out of the ark, one kind after another. 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though^[1] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 22 ‘As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.’

King James Version

1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were 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. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth 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 dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both 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. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 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. 21 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' sake; for the imagination of man' heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Elberfelder Bibel

from SCM Verlag

Versiegen des Wassers

1 Und Gott gedachte des Noah und aller Tiere und alles Viehs, das mit ihm in der Arche war; und Gott ließ einen Wind über die Erde fahren, da sank das Wasser. (Ge 19:29; Ex 14:21; Job 12:15; Ps 115:12; Isa 44:27; Jer 50:38; Zec 10:11)

Ge 19:29Ex 14:21Job 12:15Ps 115:12Isa 44:27Jer 50:38Zec 10:11

2 Und es schlossen sich die Quellen der Tiefe und die Fenster des Himmels, und der Regen vom Himmel her wurde zurückgehalten. (Ge 7:11) 3 Und das Wasser verlief sich von der Erde, allmählich zurückgehend; und das Wasser nahm ab nach Verlauf von 150 Tagen. (Ge 7:24) 4 Und im siebten Monat, am siebzehnten Tag des Monats, ließ sich die Arche auf dem Gebirge Ararat nieder. (2Ki 19:37; Jer 51:27) 5 Und das Wasser nahm immer weiter ab bis zum zehnten Monat; im zehnten ⟨Monat⟩, am Ersten des Monats, wurden die Spitzen der Berge sichtbar. 6 Und es geschah am Ende von vierzig Tagen, da öffnete Noah das Fenster der Arche, das er gemacht hatte, und ließ den Raben hinaus; 7 und der flog aus, hin und her, bis das Wasser von der Erde vertrocknet war. 8 Und er ließ die Taube von sich hinaus, um zu sehen, ob das Wasser weniger geworden war auf der Fläche des Erdbodens; 9 aber die Taube fand keinen Ruheplatz für ihren Fuß und kehrte zu ihm in die Arche zurück; denn ⟨noch⟩ war Wasser auf der Fläche der ganzen Erde; da streckte er seine Hand aus, nahm sie und holte sie zu sich in die Arche. 10 Und er wartete noch sieben weitere Tage, dann ließ er die Taube noch einmal aus der Arche; 11 und die Taube kam um die Abendzeit zu ihm ⟨zurück⟩, und siehe, ein frisches Olivenblatt war in ihrem Schnabel. Da erkannte Noah, dass das Wasser auf der Erde weniger geworden war. 12 Und er wartete noch weitere sieben Tage und ließ die Taube hinaus; da kehrte sie nicht mehr wieder zu ihm zurück. 13 Und es geschah im 601. Jahr^[1], im ersten ⟨Monat⟩, am Ersten des Monats, da war das Wasser von der Erde weggetrocknet. Und Noah entfernte das Dach^[2] von der Arche und sah: und siehe, die Fläche des Erdbodens war trocken. (Ge 7:6) 14 Im zweiten Monat, am 27. Tag des Monats, war die Erde trocken.

Noahs Opfer – Gottes Verheißung

15 Und Gott redete zu Noah und sprach: 16 Geh aus der Arche heraus, du und deine Frau und deine Söhne und die Frauen deiner Söhne mit dir! 17 Alle Tiere, die bei dir sind, von allem Fleisch, an Vögeln und an Vieh und an allen kriechenden Tieren, die auf der Erde kriechen, lass mit dir hinausgehen, dass sie wimmeln auf Erden und fruchtbar sind und sich mehren auf Erden! (Ge 1:22) 18 Da ging Noah hinaus, ⟨er⟩ und seine Söhne und seine Frau und die Frauen seiner Söhne mit ihm. (Ge 7:23) 19 Alle Tiere, alle kriechenden Tiere und alle Vögel, alles was kriecht auf der Erde nach ihren Arten, gingen aus der Arche. (Ge 9:10) 20 Und Noah baute dem HERRN einen Altar; und er nahm von allem reinen Vieh und von allen reinen Vögeln und opferte Brandopfer auf dem Altar. (Ge 7:2; Ge 12:7; Le 1:3) 21 Und der HERR roch den wohlgefälligen Geruch^[3], und der HERR sprach in seinem Herzen: Nicht noch einmal will ich den Erdboden verfluchen wegen des Menschen; denn das Sinnen des menschlichen Herzens ist böse von seiner Jugend an; und nicht noch einmal will ich alles Lebendige schlagen, wie ich getan habe. (Ge 6:5; Ge 9:11; Le 1:9; 1Sa 26:19; Ps 58:4; Isa 54:9; Mr 7:22; Eph 5:2)

Ge 6:5Ge 9:11Le 1:91Sa 26:19Ps 58:4Isa 54:9Mr 7:22Eph 5:2

22 Von nun an, alle Tage der Erde, sollen nicht aufhören Saat und Ernte, Frost und Hitze, Sommer und Winter, Tag und Nacht. (Jer 33:25)