Genesis:8

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* Then God remembered Noah , and every living thing , and all the animals that were with him in the ark . And God made a wind to pass over the earth , and the waters subsided . * The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped , and the rain from heaven was restrained . * And the waters receded continually from the earth . At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased . * Then the ark rested in the seventh month , the seventeenth day of the month , on the mountains of Ararat . * And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month . In the tenth month , on the first day of the month , the tops of the mountains were seen . * So it came to pass , at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made . * Then he sent out a raven , which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth . * He also sent out from himself a dove , to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground . * But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot , and she returned into the ark to him , for the waters were on the face of the whole earth . So he put out his hand and took her , and drew her into the ark to himself . * And he waited yet another seven days , and again he sent the dove out from the ark . * Then the dove came to him in the evening , and behold , a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth ; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth . * So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove , which did not return again to him anymore . * And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year , in the first month , the first day of the month , that the waters were dried up from the earth ; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked , and indeed the surface of the ground was dry . * And in the second month , on the twenty-seventh day of the month , the earth was dried . * Then God spoke to Noah , saying , * "Go out of the ark , you and your wife , and your sons and your sons ' wives with you . * Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you : birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth , so that they may abound on the earth , and be fruitful and multiply on the earth ." * So Noah went out , and his sons and his wife and his sons ' wives with him . * Every animal , every creeping thing , every bird , and whatever creeps on the earth , according to their families , went out of the ark . * Then Noah built an altar to the LORD , and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird , and offered burnt offerings on the altar . * And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma . Then the LORD said in His heart , "I will never again curse the ground for man 's sake , although the imagination of man 's heart is evil from his youth ; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done . * "While the earth remains , Seedtime and harvest , Cold and heat , Winter and summer , And day and night Shall not cease ."

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