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Flood Subsides |
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Genesis 8:1
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But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and
all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over
the earth, and the water subsided. |
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Genesis 8:2
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Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates
of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; |
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Genesis 8:3
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and the water receded steadily from the earth,
and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. |
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Genesis 8:4
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In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day
of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. |
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Genesis 8:5
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The water decreased steadily until the tenth
month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains
became visible. |
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Genesis 8:6
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Then it came about at the end of forty days,
that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; |
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Genesis 8:7
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and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and
there until the water was dried up from the earth. |
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Genesis 8:8
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Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if
the water was abated from the face of the land; |
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Genesis 8:9
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but the dove found no resting place for the
sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the
surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her
into the ark to himself. |
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Genesis 8:10
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So he waited yet another seven days; and again
he sent out the dove from the ark. |
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Genesis 8:11
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The dove came to him toward evening, and behold,
in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated
from the earth. |
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Genesis 8:12
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Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent
out the dove; but she did not return to him again. |
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Genesis 8:13
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Now it came about in the six hundred and first
year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from
the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold,
the surface of the ground was dried up. |
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Genesis 8:14
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In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day
of the month, the earth was dry. |
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Genesis 8:15
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Then God spoke to Noah, saying, |
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Genesis 8:16
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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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Genesis 8:17
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"Bring out with you every living thing of all
flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and
multiply on the earth." |
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Genesis 8:18
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So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife
and his sons' wives with him. |
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Genesis 8:19
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Every beast, every creeping thing, and every
bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the
ark. |
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Genesis 8:20
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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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Genesis 8:21
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The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the
LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man,
for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy
every living thing, as I have done. |
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Genesis 8:22
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"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease." |
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