Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.
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God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
2 The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,
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The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 and the water gradually went down for 150 days.
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The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.
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The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
5 The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
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The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window
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It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
7 and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone.
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and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down,
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He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,
9 but since the water still covered all the land, the dove did not find a place to light. It flew back to the boat, and Noah reached out and took it in.
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but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
10 He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again.
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He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down.
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The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12 Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.
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He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
13 When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry.
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It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 God said to Noah,
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God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
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"Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17 Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."
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Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
18 So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives.
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Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
19 All the animals and birds went out of the boat in groups of their own kind.
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Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.
20 Noah built an altar to the Lord; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar.
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Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord, and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.
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Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
22 As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."
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While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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