Genesis 8
God remembered Noah and the creatures in the ark, causing the floodwaters to recede, and the ark came to rest on the mountains of Armenia. Noah released a raven and a dove to determine if the waters had receded, and after the dove returned with an olive branch, he knew the waters had ceased. After waiting, Noah opened the ark and saw the dry earth, and God told him to exit the ark with his family and the animals, instructing them to multiply and fill the earth. Noah then built an altar and offered sacrifices to the Lord, who vowed never to curse the earth again due to humanity's evil nature.
Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminishedAnd the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrainedAnd the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty daysAnd the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of ArmeniaYet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appearedAnd when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a ravenwhich went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earthLikewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earthBut when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the arkAnd then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the arkAnd she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earthAnd nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to himTherefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dryIn the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dryThen God spoke to Noah, saying"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with youBring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with himThen also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the arkThen Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altarAnd the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: "I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have doneAll the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.
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