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[1]And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
[2]The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
[3]And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
[4]And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Hararat.
[5]And the waters decreased continually until tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
[6]And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
[7]And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
[8]Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
[9]But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth with his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
[10]And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
[11]And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
[12]And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
[13]And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, 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.
[14]And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
[15]And God spake unto Noah, saying
[16]Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
[17]And every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
[18]And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
[19]And every beast, and every fowl, every all creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
[20]And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
[21]And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again moreover curse the ground any more for man's sake; for 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.
[22]While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.
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