Genesis 8:11 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹¹ 1 And she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Common English Bible

¹¹ The dove came back to him in the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters were subsiding from the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And she came to him in the evening, carrying a bough of an olive tree with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.

Genesis 8:11 Cross References

Genesis 8:10

0 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Genesis 8:12

2 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.

Nehemiah 8:15

And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Romans 10:15

God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?