8But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.H430H2142H5146H2416H929H8392H430H5674H7307H5674H5921H776H4325H79182The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.H4599H8415H699H8064H5534H1653H8064H36073So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,H4325H7725H776H1980H7725H7097H3967H2572H3117H4325H26374exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.H8392H5117H7637H2320H6240H7651H3117H2320H2022H7805Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.H4325H2637H1980H5704H6224H2320H6224H259H2320H7218H2022H72006After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boatH7093H705H3117H5146H6605H2474H8392H62137and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.H7971H6158H3318H3318H7725H4325H3001H7768He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.H7971H3123H7200H4325H7043H6440H1279But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.H3123H4672H4494H3709H7272H7725H8392H4325H6440H776H7971H3027H3947H935H839210After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.H2342H312H7651H3117H3254H7971H3123H839211This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.H3123H935H6256H6153H6310H2132H5929H2965H5146H3045H4325H7043H77612He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.H3176H312H7651H3117H7971H3123H7725H3254H575013Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.H8337H3967H8141H7223H259H2320H4325H2717H776H5146H5493H4372H8392H7200H6440H127H271714Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!H8145H2320H7651H6242H3117H2320H776H300115Then God said to Noah,H430H1696H5146H55916"Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.H3318H8392H802H1121H1121H80217Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth."H3318H2416H1320H5775H929H7431H7430H776H8317H776H6509H7235H77618So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.H5146H3318H1121H802H1121H80219And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.H2416H7431H5775H3605H7430H776H4940H3318H839220Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.H5146H1129H4196H3068H3947H2889H929H2889H5775H5927H5930H419621And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.H3068H7306H5207H7381H3068H559H413H3820H3254H7043H127H120H5668H3336H120H3820H7451H5271H3254H5221H2416H621322As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."H776H3117H2233H7105H7120H2527H7019H2779H3117H3915H7673
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