1 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
asswaged;
2 The
fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were 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 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, were the tops of the
mountains seen.
6 And
it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the
ark which he had made:
7 And
he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried
up from off the earth.
8 Also
he sent forth 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 her foot, and she returned unto him into
the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then
he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And
he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark;
11 And
the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an
olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the
earth.
12 And
he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not
again unto him any more.
13 And
it came to pass in the six hundredth and first 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 day of the month, was the earth
dried.
15 And
God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go
forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with
thee.
17 Bring
forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of
fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth;
that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon
the earth.
18 And
Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
19 Every
beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth,
after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And
Noah builded an altar unto 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 savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not
again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's
heart is evil
from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I
have done.
22 While
the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.
