Gn 8:1And God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Gn 8:2The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Gn 8:3And the waters receded steadily from upon the earth. So at the end of one hundred fifty days the waters began to diminish.
Gn 8:4And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Gn 8:5And the waters diminished steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
Gn 8:6And at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Gn 8:7And he sent out the raven; and it went out, going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Gn 8:8And he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground.
Gn 8:9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.
Gn 8:10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
Gn 8:11And the dove came to him toward evening time, and there in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.
Gn 8:12And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.
Gn 8:13And in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that now the surface of the ground was dry.
Gn 8:14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Gn 8:15And God spoke to Noah, saying,
Gn 8:16Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you;
Gn 8:17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh — birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth — that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
Gn 8:18So Noah went forth, as well as his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
Gn 8:19Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth from the ark according to their families.
Gn 8:20And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Gn 8:21And Jehovah smelled the satisfying fragrance; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again smite everything living as I have done.
Gn 8:22 Throughout all the days that earth remains, / Seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, / And summer and winter, and day and night / Shall not cease.
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