Genesis:8

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* And God remembered Noah , and all the wildbeasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark , and God caused a wind to pass over the earth , and the waters subsided ; * and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut , and the windows of the heavens , and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens ; * and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning , and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days . * And the ark rested , in the seventh month , on the seventeenth day of the month , on the mountains of Ararat . * But , the waters went on decreasing , until the tenth month , in the tenth * And it came to pass at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made ; * and sent forth a raven , and it kept going forth and returning , until the drying up of the waters from off the earth . * And he sent forth a dove from him , to see whether the waters had abated , from off the face of the ground ; * but the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot so she returned unto him into the ark , for , waters , were on the face of all the earth ; and he put forth his hand and took her , and brought her in unto him , into the ark . * Then stayed he yet seven days more , and , again sent forth the dove out of the ark . * And the dove came in unto him at eventide , and lo ! a newly sprouted olive-leaf , in her mouth , so Noah knew that the waters had abated from off the earth . * And he stayed yet seven days more , and sent forth the dove , but she returned not again unto him any more . * So it came to pass in the six hundred and first year at the beginning , on the first of the month , that the waters had dried up from off the earth , and Noah removed the covering of the ark , and looked and lo ! the face of the ground was dried . * And in the second month , on the twenty-seventh day of the month , was the earth dry . * So then , God spake to Noah , saying : * Come forth out of the ark , thou and thy wife , and thy sons , and thy song wives with thee . * All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh among birds , and among beasts , and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth , bring forth with thee , and they shall swarm in the earth , and be fruitful and multiply , on the earth . * So Noah came forth , and his sons and his wife , and his sons wives with him : * All the living creatures , all that move along , and all birds , and all that moveth along over the earthby their families , came forth out of the ark . * And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh , and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds , and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar . * And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour , so Yahweh said to himself . I will not , again , curse any more the ground for mans sake , although the device of the heart of man , be wicked from his youth , neither will I again , any more smite every living thing , as I have done . * During all the days of the earth , seedtime and harvest , and cold and heat and summer and winter , and day and night , shall not cease .

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