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1 God remembered Noach, every living thing and all the livestock with him in the ark; so God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to go down.
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And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.
2 Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were stopped, the rain from the sky was restrained,
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And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.
3 and the water came back from completely covering the earth. It was after 150 days that the water went down.
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And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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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 water kept going down until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
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And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 After forty days Noach opened the window of the ark which he had built;
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Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,
7 and he sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
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Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water had gone from the surface of the ground.
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And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;
9 But the dove found no place for her feet to rest, so she returned to him in the ark, because the water still covered the whole earth. He put out his hand, took her and brought her in to him in the ark.
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But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
10 He waited another seven days and again sent the dove out from the ark.
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And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;
11 The dove came in to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf, so Noach knew that the water had cleared from the earth.
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And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.
12 He waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she didn't return to him any more.
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And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and, yes, the surface of the ground was dry.
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And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.
14 It was on the twenty-seventh day of the second month that the earth was dry.
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And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15 God said to Noach,
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And God said to Noah,
16 "Go out from the ark, you, your wife, your sons and your son's wives with you.
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Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
17 Bring out with you every living thing you have with you - birds, livestock and every animal that creeps on the earth - so that they can swarm on the earth, be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
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Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.
18 So Noach went out with his sons, his wife and his sons' wives;
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And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;
19 every animal, every creeping thing and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
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And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.
20 Noach built an altar to ADONAI. Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
21 ADONAI smelled the sweet aroma, and ADONAI said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, since the imaginings of a person's heart are evil from his youth; nor will I ever again destroy all living things, as I have done.
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And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
22 So long as the earth exists, sowing time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
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While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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