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year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth
day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and
the windows of heaven were opened.
01:007:012 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
01:007:013 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons
of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
01:007:014 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his
kind, every bird of every sort.
01:007:015 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life.
01:007:016 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had
commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
01:007:017 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and
bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
01:007:018 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the
ark went upon the face of the waters.
01:007:019 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills,
that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
01:007:020 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were
covered.
01:007:021 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and
of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

01:007:022 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land,
died.
01:007:023 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and
they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were
with him in the ark.
01:007:024 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
01:008:001 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that
was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters
asswaged;
01:008:002 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained;
01:008:003 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of
the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
01:008:004 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat.
01:008:005 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth
month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
01:008:006 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of
the ark which he had made:
01:008:007 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were
dried up from off the earth.
01:008:008 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off
the face of the ground;
01:008:009 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him
into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand,
and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
01:008:010 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of
the ark;
01:008:011 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an
olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
01:008:012 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned
not again unto him any more.

01:008:013 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the
first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
01:008:014 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was
the earth dried.
01:008:015 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
01:008:016 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with
thee.
01:008:017 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of
fowl, and of cattle, and