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1 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
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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;
2 The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
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the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
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and the waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated;
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
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and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
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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.
6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:
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At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made
7 Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.
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and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
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Then he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;
9 But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.
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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.
10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
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He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark;
11 And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.
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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.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.
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Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any more.
13 Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
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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.
14 In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.
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In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 And God spoke to Noe, saying:
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Then God said to Noah,
16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.
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"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.
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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."
18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.
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So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
19 And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.
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And every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by families.
20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.
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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.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
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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.
22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.
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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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