Genesis 8:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ and he sent out a raven, which kept going out and turning back until the waters had 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

Giving to the beast its food, To the young ravens that cry.

Job 38:41

Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to Ěl, and wander about without 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 stream.

1 Kings 17:4

“And it shall be that you drink from the stream, and I shall command the ravens to feed you there.”

Leviticus 11:15

every raven after its kind,

Genesis 8:6

And it came to be, at the end of forty days, that Noaḥ opened the window of the ark which he had made,

Genesis 8:8

Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.