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The waters subsided. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.</p> <p class="hdg">Exiting the Ark</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>God spoke to Noah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.</p> <p class="hdg">Noah Builds an Altar</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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