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And God remembered Noah , and all the animals , and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth , and the waters subsided.
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And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
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And the waters retired from the earth , continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated .
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And the ark rested in the seventh month , on the seventeenth day of the month , on the mountains of Ararat .
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And the waters abated continually until the tenth month : in the tenth [month ], on the first of the month , the tops of the mountains were seen .
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And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
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And he sent out the raven , which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth .
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And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.
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But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot , and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth ; and he put forth his hand , and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
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And he waited yet other seven days , and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
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And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive -leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth .
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And he waited yet other seven days , and sent forth the dove ; but she returned no more to him.
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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month ], on the first of the month , that the waters were dried up from the earth . And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.
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And in the second month , on the twenty-seventh day of the month , the earth was dry .
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And God spoke to Noah , saying,
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Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife , and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh , fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth , that they may swarm on the earth , and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth .
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And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife , and his sons' wives with him.
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All the animals , all the creeping things , and all the fowl -- everything that moves on the earth , after their kinds, went out of the ark.
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And Noah built an altar to Jehovah ; and took of every clean animal , and of all clean fowl , and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar .
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And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour . And Jehovah said in his heart , I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth ; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.
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Henceforth, all the days of the earth , seed [time] and harvest , and cold and heat, and summer and winter , and day and night , shall not cease.