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1 God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded.
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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 The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain.
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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 The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased;
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains.
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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.
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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 After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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