¹ Das Wort Jehovas, welches zu Jeremia, dem Propheten, geschah über die Philister, ehe der Pharao Gasa schlug.

² So spricht Jehova: Siehe, Wasser steigen herauf von Norden her und werden zu einem überschwemmenden Wildbach; und sie überschwemmen das Land und seine Fülle, die Städte und ihre Bewohner. Und es schreien die Menschen, und alle Bewohner des Landes heulen,

³ vor dem Schalle des Stampfens der Hufe seiner starken Rosse, vor dem Getöse seiner Wagen, dem Gerassel seiner Räder, Väter sehen sich nicht um nach den Söhnen vor Erschlaffung der Hände-

⁴ wegen des Tages, der da kommt, um alle Philister zu zerstören und für Tyrus und Zidon jeden hilfebringenden Überrest zu vertilgen. Denn Jehova zerstört die Philister, den Überrest der Insel Kaphtor.

⁵ Kahlheit ist über Gasa gekommen, vernichtet ist Askalon, der Überrest ihres Tales. Wie lange willst du dich ritzen? -

⁶ Wehe! Schwert Jehovas, wie lange willst du nicht rasten? Fahre zurück in deine Scheide, halte dich ruhig und still!

⁷ Wie sollte es rasten, da doch Jehova ihm geboten hat? Gegen Askalon und gegen das Gestade des Meeres, dorthin hat er es bestellt.

⁷ Darum wird Moab heulen über Moab; alles wird heulen. Um die Traubenkuchen von Kir-Hareseth werdet ihr seufzen, tief betrübt;

¹ God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

² The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

³ The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

⁴ The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

⁸ He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

¹⁰ He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

¹¹ The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

¹² He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

¹³ It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶ "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁷ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

¹⁸ Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

¹⁹ Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹ Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."