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1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;
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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 the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens 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 waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated;
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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 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the 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 waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
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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 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made
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Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,
7 and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were 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 the dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face 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 to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him.
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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 he sent out the dove from the ark;
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And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;
11 and the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided 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 Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not 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 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying.
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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 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
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And God said to Noah,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' 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 that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may abound on the earth, and 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 Noah went out with his sons and 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 And every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by families.
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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 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and 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 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature 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 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall 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.
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