7and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.


In Context

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 the window he had made in the ark

7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back 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 no place to set its feet 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 8:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, till the waters were dried from off the earth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.