Genesis:8

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* And God remembered Noah , and every living thing , and all the cattle that were with him in the ark : and God caused a wind to pass over the earth , and the waters were assuaged ; * The fountains also of the deep , and the windows of heaven were stopped ; and the rain from heaven was restrained . * And the waters returned from off the earth , gradually returning ; and the waters were abated after the end of the hundred and fifty days . * And the ark rested in the seventh month , on the seventeenth day of the month , upon the mountains of Ararat . * 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 ; * And it came to pass at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made ; * And he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro , until the waters were dried up from off the earth . * He then sent forth a dove from him , to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground . * But the dove found no resting –place for the sole of her foot , and she returned unto him unto the ark ; for there was water on the face of the whole earth ; then he put forth his hand , and took her , and brought her into the ark . * And he stayed yet another seven days , and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark . * And the dove came in to him at the time of the evening ; and , lo , an olive –leaf plucked off was in her mouth ; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth . * And he stayed yet other seven days , and sent forth the dove ; but she returned not again unto him any more . * And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year , in the first month , on the first day of the month , that 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 dry . * And in the second month , on the seven and twentieth day of the month , was the earth perfectly dried up . * And God spoke unto Noah , saying , * Go forth from the ark , thou , and thy wife , and thy sons , and thy sons ’ wives 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 , bring forth with thee ; that they may breed abundantly on the earth , and be fruitful , and multiply upon the earth . * And Noah went forth , and his sons , and his wife , and his sons ’ wives with him . * Every beast , every creeping thing , and every fowl , whatsoever creepeth upon the earth , after their families , went forth out of the ark . * And Noah built an altar unto the Lord , and he took of every clean cattle , and of every clean fowl , and offered burnt –offerings on the altar . * And the Lord smelled the sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart , I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man ; although the imagination of man ’s heart is evil from his youth : neither will I again smite any more every thing living , as I have done . * All the while the earth remaineth , seed –time and harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night , shall not cease .

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