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  • The Ark Rests on Ararat

    And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
  • The Flood Recedes

    But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.
  • And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
  • The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
  • And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
  • So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
  • And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
  • exactly five months from the time the flood began,a the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
  • And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
  • Two and a half months later,b as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
  • Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

    And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
  • After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
  • And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.
  • and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.
  • And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.
  • He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.
  • But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
  • But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.
  • And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
  • After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.
  • And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.
  • This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
  • And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.
  • He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.
  • Exiting the Ark

    And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.
  • Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began,c the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
  • And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
  • Two more months went by,d and at last the earth was dry!
  • And God spoke to Noah, saying,
  • Then God said to Noah,
  • Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
  • “Leave the boat, all of you — you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
  • Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
  • Release all the animals — the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground — so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.”
  • And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
  • So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.
  • All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl -- everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.
  • And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
  • Noah Builds an Altar

    And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar.
  • Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.e
  • And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.
  • And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.
  • Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
  • As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”

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