Genesis.8

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Gen.8.1

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

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Then God turned his attention to Noah and all the wild animals and farm animals with him on the ship. God caused the wind to blow and the floodwaters began to go down.

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But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

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Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

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But God remembered Noah and all the animals in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the waters, and the floods began to disappear.

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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

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The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit.

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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

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The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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The underground water sources ceased their gushing, and the torrential rains stopped.

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And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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Inch by inch the water lowered. After 150 days the worst was over.

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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

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And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

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So the flood gradually began to recede. After 150 days,

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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

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On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship landed on the Ararat mountain range.

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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

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The water kept going down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains came into view.

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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.

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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks began to appear.

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And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

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After forty days Noah opened the window that he had built into the ship.

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After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

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So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

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After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat

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And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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He sent out a raven; it flew back and forth waiting for the floodwaters to dry up.

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and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

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Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

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and released a raven that flew back and forth until the earth was dry.

Gen.8.8

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

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Then he sent a dove to check on the flood conditions,

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Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

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He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

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Then he sent out a dove to see if it could find dry ground.

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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she 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 her in unto him into the ark.

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but it couldn't even find a place to perch--water still covered the Earth. Noah reached out and caught it, brought it back into the ship.

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But the dove could find no place to set its feet 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.

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But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

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But the dove found no place to land because the water was still too high. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.

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And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

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He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again.

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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

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And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

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Seven days later, Noah released the dove again.

Gen.8.11

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

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It came back in the evening with a freshly picked olive leaf in its beak. Noah knew that the flood was about finished.

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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.

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Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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This time, toward evening, the bird returned to him with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Noah now knew that the water was almost gone.

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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

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He waited another seven days and sent the dove out a third time. This time it didn't come back.

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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

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So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

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A week later, he released the dove again, and this time it did not come back.

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And it came to pass in the six 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.

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In the six-hundred-first year of Noah's life, on the first day of the first month, the flood had dried up. Noah opened the hatch of the ship and saw dry ground.

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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.

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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

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Finally, when Noah was 601 years old, ten and a half months after the flood began, Noah lifted back the cover to look. The water was drying up.

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And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the Earth was completely dry.

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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

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And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

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Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!

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And God spake unto Noah, saying,

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God spoke to Noah:

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Then God said to Noah,

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Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

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Then God said to Noah,

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Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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"Leave the ship, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

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"Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

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"Leave the boat, all of you.

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Bring 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 breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

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And take all the animals with you, the whole menagerie of birds and mammals and crawling creatures, all that brimming prodigality of life, so they can reproduce and flourish on the Earth."

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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 upon it."

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Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

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Release all the animals and birds so they can breed and reproduce in great numbers."

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And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

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Noah disembarked with his sons and wife and his sons' wives.

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So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.

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So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

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So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.

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Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

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Then all the animals, crawling creatures, birds--every creature on the face of the Earth--left the ship family by family.

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All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds-everything that moves on the earth-came out of the ark, one kind after another.

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Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

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And all the various kinds of animals and birds came out, pair by pair.

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And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Noah built an altar to GOD. He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt-offerings on the altar.

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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.

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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and sacrificed on it the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.

Gen.8.21

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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GOD smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.

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The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

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And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

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And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.

Gen.8.22

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."

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"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

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"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease."

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As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night."

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