The Book of Genesis

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Chapter 8

1: And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

2: The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

3: And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

4: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5: 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.

6: And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

7: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8: Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

9: But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of thewhole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

10: And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11: And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12: And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

13: And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of themonth, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed thecovering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground wasdry.

14: And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

15: And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16: Go forth 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 of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon 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 fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth 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 any more forman's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neitherwill I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 9

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