Genesis 8:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁷ He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.

Genesis 8:7 Cross References

Psalm 147:9

He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.

Job 38:41

Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?

1 Kings 17:6

And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

1 Kings 17:4

You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

Leviticus 11:15

every raven according to its kind,

Genesis 8:6

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

Genesis 8:8

Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;