Genesis 8

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