6 And it came to pass at the end of forty
days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent
forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from
off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground; 9 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. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and
again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 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. 12 And he stayed yet other seven
days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
13 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. 14 And in the
second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives
with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all
flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful,
and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife,
and his sons' wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every
fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out
of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and
of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD
smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I
have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you
shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all
that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand
are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life
thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood
of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and
at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life
of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the
image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his
sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and
with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of
the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that
go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my
covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of
a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the
covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with
you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be
for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to
pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the
cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every
living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh. 16 And 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
creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is
the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh
that is upon the earth.