Gen 8
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And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him
in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
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the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain
from heaven was restrained;
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and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred
and fifty days the waters decreased.
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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat.
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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on
the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
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And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark
which he had made:
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and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried
up from off the earth.
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And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face
of the ground;
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but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the
ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand,
and took her, and brought her in to him into the ark.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
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and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, behold, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked
off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
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And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not
again to him any more.
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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first
day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.
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And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth
dry.
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And God spoke to Noah, saying,
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Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons` wives with
you.
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Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, both birds,
and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may breed
abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
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And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons` wives with him:
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every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves upon the earth,
after their families, went forth out of the ark.
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And Noah built an altar to YHWH, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean
bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
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And YHWH smelled the sweet savor; and YHWH said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man`s sake, for that the imagination of man`s heart is evil
from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
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While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter,
and day and night shall not cease.