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G enesis 8
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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 floodwaters
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 g
round—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 himself, “I
will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though
everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will
never again destroy all living things. 22 As long as the earth remains, there will
be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
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God Confirms His Covenant
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and
multiply. Fill the earth. 2 All the animals of the earth, all the birds of
the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish
in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your
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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.
