Genesis 8

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1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle, (and all the birds, and all the reptiles reptiles) were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to the ground, and the water stopped.
2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven.
3 And the waters returned from off the earth, and the waters were abated after a hundred and fifty days.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters decreased continually until the tenth month; the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he made
7 and sent out a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried from the ground water.
8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the face of the earth,
9 But the dove found no rest for his feet and returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the surface of all the earth; and he put forth his hand, and took him, and took him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
eleven The dove returned to him in the evening, and lo, an olive leaf in its mouth, and Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and he did not return to him.

13 Six hundred and first year of the first [day] of the first month waters were dried up upon the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and, behold, dried out surface of the earth.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15 And God said to Noah:
16 Come out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they on the ground and let the fruitful and multiply on the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground because of man, that the imagination of man's heart - evil from his youth; and I will not again destroy every living thing as I have done:
22 continue all the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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