| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | International Standard Version |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6After 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had built |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and sent out a raven. It went back and forth as the flood water continued to evaporate throughout the earth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him anymore. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15God spoke to Noah, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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." |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. |
|
    |