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  • 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.
  • The Flood Subsides

    But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
  • The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
  • Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
  • So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
  • and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
  • exactly five months from the time the flood began,a the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
  • In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
  • Two and a half months later,b as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
  • The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
  • After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
  • Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
  • and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.
  • and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth.
  • He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.
  • Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;
  • 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.
  • but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.
  • After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.
  • So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
  • 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.
  • The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.
  • He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.
  • Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again.
  • 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.
  • Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.
  • Two more months went by,d and at last the earth was dry!
  • In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
  • Then God said to Noah,
  • Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
  • “Leave the boat, all of you — you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
  • “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
  • 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.”
  • “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
  • So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.
  • So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
  • And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
  • Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
  • 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
  • Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • 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.
  • The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
  • As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
  • “While the earth remains,
    Seedtime and harvest,
    And cold and heat,
    And summer and winter,
    And day and night
    Shall not cease.”

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