{crossposts from writonautics}

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 were decreased. ² The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. ³ And the waters returned from off the earth continually, and after the end of the hundred and fifty (150) days the waters were abated. ⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ And it came to pass at the end of forty (40) days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. ⁷ And he sent out a raven, which went off away and back, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. ⁸ Also he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; ⁹ but the dove found no rest for the sole of its foot, and it returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put out his hand, and took it, and pulled it in to him into the ark. ¹⁰ And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out of the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came back to him in the evening, and look, in its beak was an olive leaf plucked off! So, Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. ¹² And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent out the dove again, which did not return to him anymore.

¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first (601^st) 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. ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth (27^th) day of the month, the earth has dried.

¹⁵ And 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 that is with you, of all flesh, of every fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.”

¹⁸ And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. ¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creeps upon the earth, after their kind, went off out of the ark.

²⁰ And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in His heart,

“I will not curse again the ground anymore for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again smite anymore every living thing, as I have done.

²² While the earth remains,

seedtime and harvest,

and cold and heat,

and summer and winter,

and day and night

will not cease.”

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