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1 Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished. But 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. But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
2 And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained. The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
3 And the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty days. and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appeared. And 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. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a raven, At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
7 which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth. and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8 Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth. Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark. But 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. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10 And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth. And 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. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12 And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him. Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry. In 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. By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying: Then God said to Noah, Then God said to Noah,
16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you. “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.” Bring 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.” Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18 And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him. So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar. Then 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. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done. And 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. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.” While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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