And God remembered Noe, and all the living
creatures, and all the cattle which were with him
in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth,
and the waters were abated:
2 The fountains also of the deep, and the
floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain
from heaven was restrained.
3 And the waters returned from off the earth
going and coming: and they began to be abated
after a hundred and fifty days.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month,
the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Armenia.
5 And the waters were going and decreasing
until the tenth month: for in the tenth month,
the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe
opening the window of the ark, which he had
made, sent forth a raven:
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7 Which went forth and did not return, till the
waters were dried up upon the earth.
8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if
the waters had now ceased upon the face of the
earth.
9 But she not finding where her foot might
rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters
were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his
hand, and caught her, and brought her into the
ark.
10 And having waited yet seven other days,
he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in
her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the
waters were ceased upon the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and
he sent forth the dove, which returned not any
more unto him.
13 Therefore in the six hundredth and first
year, the first month, the first day of the month,
the waters were lessened upon the earth, and
Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and
saw that the face of the earth was dried.
14 In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 And God spoke to Noe, saying:
16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy
sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.
17 All living things that are with thee of all
flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out
with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase
and multiply upon it.
18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife,
and the wives of his sons with him.
19 And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according
to their kinds went out of the ark.
20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and
taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean,
offered holocausts upon the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and
said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of
man: for the imagination and thought of man's
heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore
I will no more destroy every living soul as I have
done.
22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night
and day, shall not cease.