Genesis 8:9   (Read all of Genesis 8)

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.

Genesis 8:10   (Read all of Genesis 8)

He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:12   (Read all of Genesis 8)

He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Genesis 8:13   (Read all of Genesis 8)

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.

Genesis 8:14   (Read all of Genesis 8)

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Genesis 8:15   (Read all of Genesis 8)

Then God said to Noah,

Genesis 8:16   (Read all of Genesis 8)

"Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

Genesis 8:18   (Read all of Genesis 8)

So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.

Genesis 8:20   (Read all of Genesis 8)

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.

Genesis 8:21   (Read all of Genesis 8)

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Genesis 8:22   (Read all of Genesis 8)

"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

Genesis 9:1   (Read all of Genesis 9)

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:2   (Read all of Genesis 9)

The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.

Genesis 9:4   (Read all of Genesis 9)

"But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

Genesis 9:5   (Read all of Genesis 9)

And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

Genesis 9:6   (Read all of Genesis 9)

"Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.

Genesis 9:8   (Read all of Genesis 9)

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

Genesis 9:12   (Read all of Genesis 9)

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

Genesis 9:13   (Read all of Genesis 9)

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:16   (Read all of Genesis 9)

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

Genesis 9:17   (Read all of Genesis 9)

So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Genesis 9:18   (Read all of Genesis 9)

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

Genesis 9:19   (Read all of Genesis 9)

These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.

Genesis 9:20   (Read all of Genesis 9)

Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.