GE-8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all
the
cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to
pass
over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
GE-8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were
stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
GE-8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually:
and
after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated.
GE-8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth
day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
GE-8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth
month: in
the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the
tops of
the mountains seen.
GE-8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah
opened
the window of the ark which he had made:
GE-8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,
until
the waters were dried up from off the earth.
GE-8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters
were
abated from off the face of the ground;
GE-8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and
she
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the
face of
the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and
pulled
her in unto him into the ark.
GE-8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent
forth
the dove out of the ark;
GE-8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in
her
mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the
waters
were abated from off the earth.
GE-8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the
dove;
which returned not again unto him any more.
GE-8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year,
in
the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were
dried
up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark,
and
looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
GE-8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day
of
the month, was the earth dried.
GE-8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
GE-8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons,
and
thy sons' wives with thee.
GE-8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with
thee,
of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every
creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed
abundantly in
the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
GE-8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him:
GE-8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and]
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out
of the ark.
GE-8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of
every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on
the altar.
GE-8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said
in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake;
for
the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither
will
I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
GE-8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and
cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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