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kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah
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of every sort. And they went into the ark to knew that the waters had receded from the
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Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the earth. So he waited yet another seven days
breath of life. So those that entered, male and and sent out the dove, which did not return
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female of all flesh, went in as God had com- again to him anymore.
manded him; and the LORD shut him in. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and
17 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. first year, in the first month, the first day of the
The waters increased and lifted up the ark, month, that the waters were dried up from
and it rose high above the earth. The waters the earth; and Noah removed the covering of
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prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of
and the ark moved about on the surface of the the ground was dry. And in the second month,
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waters. And the waters prevailed exceeding- on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the
ly on the earth, and all the high hills under the earth was dried.
whole heaven were covered. The waters pre- 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out
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vailed fifteen cubits upward, and the moun- of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons
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tains were covered. And all flesh died that and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with
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moved on the earth: birds and cattle and you every living thing of all flesh that is with
beasts and every creeping thing that creeps you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing
on the earth, and every man. All in whose that creeps on the earth, so that they may
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nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all abound on the earth, and be fruitful and mul-
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that was on the dry land, died. So He tiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his
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destroyed all living things which were on the sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
face of the ground: both man and cattle, creep- 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every
ing thing and bird of the air. They were bird, and whatever creeps on the earth,
destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and according to their families, went out of the ark.
those who were with him in the ark remained 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and
alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth took of every clean animal and of every clean
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one hundred and fifty days. bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Then God remembered Noah, and every 21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma.
8 living thing, and all the animals that were Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never
with him in the ark. And God made a wind to again curse the ground for man’s sake,
pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of although the imagination of man’s heart is evil
from his youth; nor will I again destroy every
heaven were also stopped, and the rain from living thing as I have done.
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heaven was restrained. And the waters reced-
ed continually from the earth. At the end of 22 “While the earth remains,
the hundred and fifty days the waters Seedtime and harvest,
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decreased. Then the ark rested in the seventh Cold and heat,
month, the seventeenth day of the month, on Winter and summer,
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the mountains of Ararat. And the waters And day and night
decreased continually until the tenth month. Shall not cease.”
In the tenth month, on the first day of the Psalm 3:1–4
month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, A Psalm of David when he fled from
that Noah opened the window of the ark Absalom his son.
which he had made. Then he sent out a raven, ORD, how they have increased
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which kept going to and fro until the waters L who trouble me!
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had dried up from the earth. He also sent out Many are they who rise up against me.
from himself a dove, to see if the waters had 2 Many are they who say of me,
receded from the face of the ground. But the “There is no help for him in God.”
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dove found no resting place for the sole of her Selah
foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for
the waters were on the face of the whole earth. 3 But You, O LORD, are a shield for me,
So he put out his hand and took her, and drew My glory and the One who lifts up my
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her into the ark to himself. And he waited yet head.
another seven days, and again he sent the 4 I cried to the LORD with my voice,
dove out from the ark. Then the dove came And He heard me from His
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to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly holy hill. Selah
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