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And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then God said to Noah,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then God said to Noah,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds--everything that moves on land--came out of the ark, one kind after another.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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