GOD'S WORD Translation GW
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12 He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but it never came back to him.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water on the land had dried up. Noah opened the top of the ship, looked out, and saw the surface of the ground.
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By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was dry.
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah,
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Then God said to Noah,
16 "Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives.
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“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every animal that's with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth."
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Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18 So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.
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So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 Every animal, crawling creature, and bird--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ship, one kind after another.
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All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Noah built an altar to the LORD. On it he made a burnt offering of each type of clean animal and clean bird.
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.
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The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 As long as the earth exists, planting and harvesting, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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