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          DASV: Genesis 8    

1 But God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals, and all the
livestock that were with him in the ark. Then God made a wind
blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2 The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped,
and the rain from heaven was restrained.
3 So the waters gradually receded from off the earth.
Then after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 The ark rested in the seventeenth day of the seventh month,
on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month.
On the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains
became visible.

6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark
that he had made
7 and sent out a raven. It flew back and forth, until the waters
were dried up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had receded from
off the face of the ground.
9 But the dove found no place for its feet to land. So it returned
to him in the ark, for the waters still covered the face of the
whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took it, and brought
it back to him in the ark.
10 After waiting seven more days, again he sent out the dove from
of the ark.
11 In the evening, when the dove came back to him; there was in her
mouth a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had
subsided from the earth.
12 Then he stayed seven more days, and sent out the dove. This time
it did not again return to him.
13 Now in Noah's six hundred and first year, in the first day of the
first month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Then Noah
removed the covering of the ark and saw the face of the ground was drying.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month,
the earth was dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons'
wives with you.
17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all
flesh--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."
18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife and his sons' wives.
19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird and everything
that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by their families.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took some of all the clean
beasts and clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled the sweet aroma. And the LORD said
in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of
human beings, for the imagination of the human heart is evil
from his youth. Neither will I ever again destroy every living
thing as I have done.
22 As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest,
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease."

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