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| 1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. | 1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. |
| 2The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, | 2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. |
| 3and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, | 3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. |
| 4and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. | 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. |
| 5And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. | 5And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. |
| 6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made | 6After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark |
| 7and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. | 7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. |
| 8Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. | 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. |
| 9But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. | 9But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark. |
| 10He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. | 10Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. |
| 11And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. | 11And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. |
| 12Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. | 12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him. |
| 13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. | 13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. |
| 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. | 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry. |
| 15Then God said to Noah, | 15Then God said to Noah, |
| 16“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. | 16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. |
| 17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” | 17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.” |
| 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. | 18So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. |
| 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. | 19Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind. |
| 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. | 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. |
| 21And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. | 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. |
| 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” | 22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.” |
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