1 And God
remembered Noah, and every living thing, and
all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, 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 [flood-gates]
of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the
waters subsided, and 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 [twenty-seventh] 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, and returned not until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he
sent forth a dove from him, after it, 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 of the life of Noah, 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 which he had made
and looked, and, behold, the water had
subsided from the face of the Earth, 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, having
considered, 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 intently bent upon evil from his youth; neither will I again smite
any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the
earth remaineth, all the days of the
earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter [spring], and day and night shall not
cease.
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