Genesis 8, side by side

Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.

Modern

1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

Classic

1And 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;

Modern

2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Classic

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

Modern

3The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

Classic

3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

Modern

4The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

Classic

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

Modern

5The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

Classic

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.

Modern

6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

Classic

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

Modern

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

Classic

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

Modern

8He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

Classic

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

Modern

9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

Classic

9But 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.

Modern

10He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

Classic

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

Modern

11The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

Classic

11And 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.

Modern

12He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

Classic

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

Modern

13In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Classic

13And 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.

Modern

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

Classic

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

Modern

15God spoke to Noah, saying,

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15And God spake unto Noah, saying,

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16“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Classic

16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Modern

17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

Classic

17Bring 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.

Modern

18Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

Classic

18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

Modern

19Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Classic

19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

Modern

20Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Classic

20And 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.

Modern

21The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Classic

21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD 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.

Modern

22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Classic

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

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