Genesis 8:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 11:15 : 15 Every raven, and birds of that sort;
  • 1 Kgs 17:4 : 4 The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.
  • 1 Kgs 17:6 : 6 And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.
  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

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  • Gen 8:8-19
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    8And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

    9But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

    10And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

    11And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

    12And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

    13And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

    14And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15And God said to Noah,

    16Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

    17Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

    18And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;

    19And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

  • Gen 8:5-6
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    5And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

    6Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

    2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

    3And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

  • Gen 7:3-12
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    3And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

    4For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

    5And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

    7And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

    8Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

    9In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

    10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

    12And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 7:17-19
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    17And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

    18And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

    19And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

    24And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • 14Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

  • 15Every raven, and birds of that sort;

  • 1 Kgs 17:6-7
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    6And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.

    7Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

  • 14And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

  • 4The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.