“1 And 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; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the
end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”
“4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of
the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And 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.”
“6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which
went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the
earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But 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. 10 And he
stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark; 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. 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.”
“15 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. 17 Bring 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. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and
his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping
thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.”
“20 And 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. 21 And 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. 22 While the
earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Ge 8:1-22 AV)
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