³But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

⁴For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

⁵And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.

⁶And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

⁷And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

⁹Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.

¹⁰And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

¹²And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.

¹⁴They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,

¹⁵Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.

¹⁶And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

¹⁸For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

¹⁹And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

²⁰The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

²¹And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

²²And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

²³And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Chapter 8

And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:

²The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

³And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

⁵And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

⁶And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:

⁷Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.

⁸He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

⁹But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.

¹⁰And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

¹¹And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.

¹²And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.

¹³Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.

¹⁴In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

¹⁵And God spoke to Noe, saying:

¹⁶Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.

¹⁷All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

¹⁸So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

¹⁹And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.

²⁰And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

²¹And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

²²All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

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