13 August 2022 draft-bible
1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 And the waters continually returned from upon the earth; and after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. 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, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 Now at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, 7 and he sent out a raven, and it went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 And he sent out a dove that was with him to see if the waters were abated from the face of the ground; 9 but the dove found no place to rest the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. And he put out his hand, and took her, and brought her in to him into the ark. 10 And he waited seven more days, and again he sent the dove out of the ship. 11 And the dove came in to him at evening; and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. 12 And he waited seven more days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him any more.
13 Now in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were drief up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and there before him the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go out of the ark: you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, among birds, and livestock, and every crawling thing that crawls upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every crawling thing, and every bird, whatever moves upon the earth, by their families, went out of the ark.
20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing scent, and Yahweh said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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