1 But God remembered Noah and allthe wild animals and the livestock thatwere with him in the ark, and he sent awind over the earth, and the watersreceded.2 Now the springs of the deep and thefloodgates of the heavens had beenclosed, and the rain had stopped fallingfrom the sky.3 The water receded steadily from theearth. At the end of the hundred and fiftydays the water had gone down,4 and on the seventeenth day of theseventh month the ark came to rest onthe mountains of Ararat.5 The waters continued to recede untilthe tenth month, and on the first day ofthe tenth month the tops of themountains became visible.6 After forty days Noah opened thewindow he had made in the ark7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flyingback and forth until the water had driedup from the earth.8 Then he sent out a dove to see if thewater had receded from the surface ofthe ground.9 But the dove could find no place to setits feet because there was water over allthe surface of the earth; so it returned toNoah in the ark. He reached out hishand and took the dove and brought itback to himself in the ark.10 He waited seven more days and againsent out the dove from the ark.11 When the dove returned to him in theevening, there in its beak was a freshlyplucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew thatthe water had receded from the earth.12 He waited seven more days and sentthe dove out again, but this time it didnot return to him.13 By the first day of the first month ofNoah's six hundred and first year, thewater had dried up from the earth. Noahthen removed the covering from the arkand saw that the surface of the groundwas dry.14 By the twenty-seventh day of thesecond month the earth was completelydry.15 Then God said to Noah,16 "Come out of the ark, you and yourwife and your sons and their wives.17 Bring out every kind of living creaturethat is with you-the birds, the animals,and all the creatures that move alongthe ground-so they can multiply on theearth and be fruitful and increase innumber upon it."18 So Noah came out, together with hissons and his wife and his sons' wives.19 All the animals and all the creaturesthat move along the ground and all thebirds-everything that moves on theearth-came out of the ark, one kind afteranother.20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lordand, taking some of all the cleananimals and clean birds, he sacrificedburnt offerings on it.21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aromaand said in his heart: "Never again will Icurse the ground because of man, eventhough every inclination of his heart isevil from childhood. And never again willI destroy all living creatures, as I havedone.22 "As long as the earth endures,seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,summer and winter, day and night willnever cease."

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