Genesis 8
1And God remembered Noah and all the
beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God
caused a spirit to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2And
the springs of the deep were
closed, and the windows of the heavens, and the rain from the
heavens was withheld.
3And the waters receded off the earth
more and more, and the water diminished at the end of a hundred and
fifty days.
4And the ark came to rest in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the
mountains of Ararat.
5And the waters constantly diminished
until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the
month, the mountain peaks appeared.
6And it came to pass at the end of
forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7And he sent forth the raven, and it
went out, back and forth until the waters dried up off the earth.
8And he sent forth the dove from with
him, to see whether the waters had abated from upon the surface of
the earth.
9But the dove found no resting place
for the sole of its foot; so it returned to him to the ark because
there was water upon the entire surface of the earth; so he
stretched forth his hand and took it, and he brought it to him to
the ark.
10And he waited again another seven
days, and he again sent forth the dove from the ark.
11And the dove returned to him at
eventide, and behold it had plucked an olive leaf in its mouth; so
Noah knew that the water had abated from upon the earth.
12And he again waited another seven
days, and he sent forth the dove, and it no longer continued to
return to him.
13And it came to pass in the six
hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the
month, that the waters dried up from upon the earth, and Noah
removed the covering of the ark, and he saw, and behold, the surface
of the ground had dried up.
14And in the second month, on the
twenty seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15And God spoke to Noah saying:
16’Go out of the ark, you and your
wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17Every living thing that is with you of all flesh, of
fowl, and of animals and of all the creeping things that creep on
the earth, bring out with you, and they shall swarm upon the earth,
and they shall be fruitful and
multiply upon the earth.’
18So Noah went out, and his sons and
his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19Every beast, every creeping thing,
and all fowl, everything that moves upon the earth, according to
their families they went forth from the ark.
20And Noah built an altar to the Lord,
and he took of all the clean animals and of all the clean fowl and
brought up burnt offerings on the altar.
21And the Lord smelled the pleasant
aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, ‘I will no longer curse the
earth because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth, and I will no longer smite all living things as I
have done.
22So long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.’
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See also Link “The Flood"
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