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Genesis 8

¹And God remembered Noah, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters receded. ²And the fountains of the Tehom and the windows of heaven were closed and the rain ceased from the heavens. ³And the waters went away steadily from upon the land. After 150 days the waters receded. ⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵The waters were going and receding until the 10th month; in the 10th month, on the 1st day of the month, when the tops of the mountains were seen. ⁶At the end of forty days, Noah opened a window of the ark that he had made. ⁷and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. ⁸Then Noah sent forth the dove from him to see if the waters had ceased from upon the face of the ground. ⁹But the dove could not find rest for her feet, and she returned to him at the ark, because the waters were upon the face of the whole land. And he reached out his hand and took her, and brought her unto him in the ark.

¹⁰And he tried again seven days later, and he again sent forth the dove from the ark. ¹¹And the dove returned to him at the time of evening, and behold, an olive branch torn off was in her mouth, and Noah knew that the waters had ceased from upon the land. ¹²And he tried again seven days later, and he sent forth the dove, and she no longer returned to the ark. ¹³And in the 601st year, at the beginning, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from upon the land. So Noah put aside the covering of the ark, and he saw, and behold the face of the ground was dry. ¹⁴And on the seventeenth day of the second month the land was dry. ¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶"Leave the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law. ¹⁷Bring out with you all the living creatures from among the birds and the beasts, and from all the crawling things that crawl on the ground, and let them swarm out across the land and be fruitful and multiply on the land. ¹⁸So Noah left, along with his sons, his wife, and his daughters-in-law. ¹⁹Every living creature, every crawling thing, every bird, everything that moves about on the land according to their families left the ark.

²⁰Then Noah built an altar to YHWH, and he took from all the clean beasts and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And when YWHW smelled the pleasing odor, he said to himself, "I will not again curse the ground because of human beings, because the inclination of a human being's mind is bad from youth, so I will never again smite all living things as I have done. ²²
While there are still days on earth
Planting and harvesting,
Cold and heat,
Summer and winter,
Day and night,
Will not stop.

Average revision: 3 (Draft # 1 by individual translator)