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gENESIS 7:13
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13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—
Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. 14 With them in the boat were
pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along
with birds of e very kind. 15 Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. 16 A male and female of each kind
entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door
behind them.
17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and
lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As the waters rose higher and higher
above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water
covered even the highest mountains on the earth, 20 rising more than
twenty-two feet* above the highest peaks. 21 All the living things on earth
died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry
along the ground, and all the people. 22 Everything that breathed and lived
on dry land died. 23 God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people,
livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the
sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those
with him in the boat. 24 And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
The Flood Recedes
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with
him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the flood
waters began to recede. 2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the
torrential rains from the sky were stopped. 3 So the floodwaters gradually
receded from the earth. After 150 days, 4 exactly five months from the time
the flood began,* the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 Two and a
half months later,* as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks
became visible.
6 After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the
boat 7 and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the flood
waters on the earth had dried up. 8 He also released a dove to see if the water
had receded and it could find dry ground. 9 But the dove could find no place
to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the
boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside. 10 After
waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. 11 This time the
dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then
Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. 12 He waited another
seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and
a half months after the flood began,* the floodwaters had almost dried up
from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the
surface of the ground was drying. 14 Two more months went by,* and at last
the earth was dry!
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your
wife, and your sons and their wives. 17 Release all the animals—the birds,
the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they
can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.”
18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 And all
of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt
offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.*
21 And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to
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7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters]. 8:4 Hebrew on the seventeenth day of the seventh
month; see 7:11. 8:5 Hebrew On the first day of the tenth month; see 7:11 and note on 8:4.
8:13 Hebrew On the first day of the first month; see 7:11. 8:14 Hebrew The twenty-seventh day of
the second month arrived; see note on 8:13. 8:20 Hebrew every clean animal and every clean bird.
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