Old Testament · Law
Genesis chapter 8
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But Elohim Noah and every wild animal and every domestic animal that was with him in the . Elohim sent a over the earth, and the waters began to settle.The and the were sealed shut, and the downpour from the sky was held back.The waters kept receding from the earth, steadily pulling back. After a hundred and fifty days, the waters had gone down enough.On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the chest came to rest on the mountains of .The waters kept going down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.After forty days, Noah opened the he had made in the chestand sent out a . It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.Then he sent out a to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the ground.But the dove couldn’t find a place to land, so she came back to him at the chest because water still covered the whole surface of the earth. He reached out his hand, took her, and brought her back inside with him.He waited seven more days and again sent the dove out from the chest.The dove came back to him in the evening, and there in her beak was a freshly plucked . So Noah knew the waters had gone down from the earth.He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again. This time she didn’t come back to him.By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the waters had dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the chest and looked out — the surface of the ground was drying.By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was completely dry.Then Elohim spoke to Noah:“Come out of the chest — you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.Bring out every living thing that is with you — birds, animals, everything that crawls on the ground — so they can spread out across the earth, on the earth.”So Noah came out, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird — everything that moves on the earth — came out of the chest, sorted by their .Noah built an to . He took some of every animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.Yahweh breathed in the , and Yahweh , “I will never again the ground because of human beings, even though from youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing the way I just did.As long as the earth endures, will never stop.”