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| 1God kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God's Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside. | 1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. |
| 2The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. | 2The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, |
| 3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. | 3and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, |
| 4The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. | 4and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5The flood water continued to recede until the tenth month, when, on the first of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen. | 5And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. |
| 6After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built | 6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made |
| 7and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. | 7and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. |
| 8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, | 8Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. |
| 9but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him. | 9But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. |
| 10Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. | 10He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. |
| 11The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land. | 11And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. |
| 12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore. | 12Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. |
| 13In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying. | 13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. |
| 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry. | 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. |
| 15God spoke to Noah, | 15Then God said to Noah, |
| 16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark. | 16“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. |
| 17Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth." | 17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” |
| 18So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged. | 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. |
| 19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups. | 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. |
| 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. |
| 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings—even though human inclinations remain evil from youth—nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done. | 21And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. |
| 22"Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease." | 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” |
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