(KJV) Genesis 8¹

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⥃The Ark Rests on Ararat

[1] And God remembered² Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle³ that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind⁴ to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; [2] The fountains⁵ also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain⁶ from heaven was restrained; [3] And the waters returned from off the earth continually⁷: and after the end of the hundred⁸ and fifty days the waters were abated. [4] And the ark⁹ rested in the seventh month¹⁰, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat¹¹. [5] And the waters decreased continually¹² until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

⥃Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

[6] And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window¹³ of the ark which he had made: [7] And he sent forth a raven¹⁴, which went forth to and fro¹⁵, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. [8] Also he sent forth a dove¹⁶ from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; [9] But the dove found¹⁷ no rest for the sole of her foot, and she¹⁸ 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 her¹⁹ in unto him into the ark. [10] And he stayed²⁰ yet other seven²¹ 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 olive²² leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. [12] And he²³ stayed yet other seven²⁴ days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

⥃Exiting the Ark

[13] And it came to pass in the six²⁵ 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.²⁶ [14] And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.²⁷

[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.²⁸ [17] Bring²⁹ 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 breed³⁰ 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:³¹ [19] Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds³², went forth out of the ark.

⥃Noah Builds an Altar

[20] And Noah builded³³ an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast³⁴, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt³⁵ offerings on the altar. [21] And the Lord smelled³⁶ a sweet savour³⁷; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse³⁸ the ground any more for³⁹ man’s sake; for the imagination⁴⁰ of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither⁴¹ will I again smite any more every thing living, as I⁴² have done. [22] While the earth remaineth⁴³, seedtime⁴⁴ and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day⁴⁵ and night shall not cease.

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