¹And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. ²And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped. ³And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. ⁷And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth. ⁸And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground. ⁹But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark. ¹⁰And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth. ¹²And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.

¹³And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried. ¹⁴And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. ¹⁷Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth. ¹⁸And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. ¹⁹All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl—everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

²⁰And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar. ²¹And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done. ²²Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Chapter 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. ³Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything. ⁴Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat. ⁵And indeed your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each the blood of his brother, will I require the life of Man. ⁶Whoso sheddeth Man’s blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man. ⁷And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

⁸And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; ¹⁰and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark—every animal of the earth. ¹¹And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

¹²And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations: ¹³I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁷And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁸And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was the population of the whole earth spread abroad. ²⁰And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard. ²¹And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent. ²²And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside. ²³And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid it upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father’s nakedness.

²⁴And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren. ²⁶And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman. ²⁷Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

²⁸And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

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