¹ The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and brought· me ·out in the spirit of Jehovah, and rested me in the midst of the vale and it^◦ was full of bones,

² and caused me to pass by^◦ them all around; and, behold, there were very many on the face of the vale; and behold, they were very dry.

³ And He said unto^▵ me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I said, O Lord Jehovih^*, Thou^◦ knowest.

⁴ And He said unto^▵ me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto^▵ them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.

⁵ Thus says the Lord Jehovih unto these bones; Behold, I^◦ will cause spirit to come into you, and you shall live;

⁶ and I will put^◦ sinews on you, and will bring·​·up flesh upon you, and cover over you with skin, and put^◦ spirit in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I^◦ am Jehovah.

⁷ And I prophesied as^◦ I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a voice, and behold a quaking, and the bones came·​·near, a bone to^▵ its bone.

⁸ And I saw, and behold, sinews and flesh came·​·up on them, and skin covered over them above; but there was no spirit in them.

⁹ And He said unto^▵ me, Prophesy to^▵ the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to^▵ the wind, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: Come from the four winds, O spirit^*, and breathe into these that were killed, and they will live.

¹⁰ And I prophesied as^◦ He commanded me, and the spirit came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a very, very great host.

¹¹ And He said to^▵ me, Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel; behold, they^◦ say, Our bones are dried·​·up, and our hope^◦ is·​·lost; for ourselves we are severed.

¹² Therefore prophesy and say unto^▵ them, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: Behold, O My people, I^◦ will open your graves, and cause you to come·​·up out·​·of your graves, and bring you onto^▵ the ground of Israel.

¹³ And you shall know that I^◦ am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought· you ·up out·​·of your graves,

¹⁴ and shall put^◦ My spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you on your own ground; and you shall know that I^◦, Jehovah, have spoken it, and done it, says^◦ Jehovah.

¹⁵ And the word of Jehovah was unto^▵ me, saying,

¹⁶ And thou^◦, son of man, take for thyself one piece of wood, and write on it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his friends; then take one piece of wood, and write on it, For Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his friends:

¹⁷ and bring· them ·near, one to^▵ the other^* one to thee, into one piece of wood, and they shall be one in thy hand.

¹⁸ And when^▵ the sons of thy people shall say unto^▵ thee, saying, Wilt thou not tell us what these mean to thee?

¹⁹ speak to^▵ them, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: Behold, I^◦ will take the wood of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes^◦ of Israel his friends, and will put^◦ them upon him, with^◦ the wood of Judah, and make them one piece of wood, and they shall be one in My hand.

²⁰ And the pieces of wood upon which thou writest shall be in thy hand before^▫ their eyes.

²¹ And speak to^▵ them, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: Behold, I^◦ will take the sons of Israel from among the nations, whither they be gone^◦, and will bring· them ·together all around, and bring them onto^▵ their own ground;

²² and I will make them into one nation in the land upon^◦ the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be for a king to them all; and they shall be no^◦ more^◦ two nations, neither shall they be halved any·​·more into^◦ two kingdoms any·​·more.

²³ Neither shall they make· themselves ·unclean any·​·more with their idols, nor^◦ with their detestable things, nor^◦ with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out·​·of all their dwellingplaces, wherein^◦ they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to Me for a people, and I^◦ will be to them for a God.

²⁴ And My servant David shall be king over them, and there shall be one shepherd for them all; and they shall walk^◦ in My judgments, and keep My statutes, and do them.

²⁵ And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob My servant, wherein^◦ your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, even they^◦, and their sons, and their sons’ sons to^◦ eternity; and My servant David shall be chief to them to eternity.

²⁶ And I will cut a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an eternal covenant with^◦ them; and I will give them and multiply them, and will put^◦ My sanctuary in their midst to eternity.

²⁷ And My habitation shall be over them; and I will be to them for a God and they^◦ shall be to Me for a people.

²⁸ And the nations shall know that I^◦, Jehovah, shall sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst to eternity.

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."