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The Flood Subsides

¹ But ^(C1)God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and ^(C2)God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.² Also ^(C1)the fountains of the deep and the ^(F1)floodgates of the sky were closed, and ^(C2)the rain from the sky was restrained;³ and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end ^(C1)of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.⁴ In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, ^(C1)the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.⁵ The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

⁶ Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the ^(C1)window of the ark which he had made;⁷ and he sent out a raven, and it ^(F1)flew here and there until the water was dried up ^(F2)from the earth.⁸ Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;⁹ but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the ^(F1)surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.¹⁰ So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.¹¹ The dove came to him toward ^(F1)evening, and behold, in her ^(F2)beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.¹² Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out ^(C1)the dove; but she did not return to him again.

¹³ Now it came about in the ^(C1)six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up ^(F1)from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the ^(F2)surface of the ground was dried up.¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.¹⁵ Then 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 of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may ^(F1)(C1)breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."¹⁸ So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out ^(F1)by their families from the ark.

²⁰ Then Noah built ^(C1)an altar to the LORD, and took of every ^(C2)clean animal and of every clean bird and offered ^(C3)burnt offerings on the altar.²¹ The LORD ^(C1)smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said ^(F1)to Himself, "I will never again ^(C2)curse the ground on account of man, for ^(C3)the ^(F2)intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; ^(C4)and I will never again ^(F3)destroy every living thing, as I have done.

²² "While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And ^(C1)summer and winter,
And ^(C2)day and night
Shall not cease."