Passage

Genesis 8.14

Book: Genesis · NASB95

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

12. And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more. 13. And it came to pass in the six hundred 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 dried.

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

And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16. Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. (Genesis 8:12-16, ASV)

WEB

12. He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore. 13. In 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 dried.

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

God spoke to Noah, saying, 16. “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. (Genesis 8:12-16, WEB)

KJV

12. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13. And 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.

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

And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. (Genesis 8:12-16, KJV)

YLT

12. And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more. 13. And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

14. And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, 'Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee; 16. every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee; (Genesis 8:12-16, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: the narrator of Genesis, traditionally Moses
Audience: Israel
Location: the flood narrative, Genesis 6-9
Time period: the primeval history before Abraham

Theological reading

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry. The flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month of Noah's six hundredth year (Genesis 7:11), and the earth is dry on the twenty-seventh day of the second month of his six hundred and first, a year and ten days later.

Genesis 8:13 says the waters were dried from the ground on the first day of the first month; verse 14 marks the earth fully dry eight weeks after that. The careful dating reads as a record, and the next verse brings God's word to leave the ark (Genesis 8:15-16).

Key words

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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