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And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures , and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth , and the waters were abated.
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The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
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And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days .
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And the ark rested in the seventh month , the seven and twentieth day of the month , upon the mountains of Armenia.
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And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month : for in the tenth month , the first day of the month , the tops of the mountains appeared.
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And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven:
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Which went forth and did not return , till the waters were dried up upon the earth .
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He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
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But she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth : and he put forth his hand , and caught her, and brought her into the ark.
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And having waited yet seven other days , he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
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And she came to him in the evening , carrying a bough of an olive tree , with green leaves , in her mouth . Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth .
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And he stayed yet other seven days : and he sent forth the dove , which returned not any more unto him.
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Therefore in the six hundreth and first year, the first month , the first day of the month , the waters were lessened upon the earth , and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
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In the second month , the seven and twentieth day of the month , the earth was dried .
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And God spoke to Noe, saying:
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Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife , thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
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All livings things that are with thee of all flesh , as well in fowls as in beasts , and all creeping things that creep upon the earth , bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth : increased and multiply upon it.
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So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife , and the wives of his sons with him.
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And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth , according to their kinds, went out of the ark.
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And Noe built an altar unto the Lord : and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean , offered holocausts upon the altar .
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And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said : I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth : therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
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All the days of the earth , seedtime and harvest , cold and heat, summer and winter , night and day , shall not cease.