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1 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.
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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.
2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
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The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain.
3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
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The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased;
4 exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains.
5 Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
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The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.
6 After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
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After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7 and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.
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He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up.
8 He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.
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Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters on all of the fertile land had subsided,
9 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.
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but the dove found no place to set its foot. It returned to him in the ark since waters still covered the entire earth. Noah stretched out his hand, took it, and brought it back into the ark.
10 After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out from the ark again.
11 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.
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The dove came back to him in the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters were subsiding from the earth.
12 He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.
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He waited seven more days and sent out the dove, but it didn't come back to him again.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, 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.
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In Noah's six hundred first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the ark's hatch and saw that the surface of the fertile land had dried up.
14 Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!
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In the second month, on the seventeenth day, the earth was dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
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God spoke to Noah,
16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
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"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17 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.”
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Bring out with you all the animals of every kind—birds, livestock, everything crawling on the ground—so that they may populate the earth, be fertile, and multiply on the earth."
18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.
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So Noah went out of the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.
19 And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
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All the animals, all the livestock, all the birds, and everything crawling on the ground, came out of the ark by their families.
20 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.
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Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of the clean large animals and some of the clean birds, and placed entirely burned offerings on the altar.
21 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.
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The LORD smelled the pleasing scent, and the LORD thought to himself, I will not curse the fertile land anymore because of human beings since the ideas of the human mind are evil from their youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22 As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
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As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and hot, summer and autumn, day and night will not cease.
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