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Noah’s Deliverance
1Then God ⚓remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. ⚓And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2⚓The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also ⚓stopped, and ⚓the rain from heaven was restrained.
3And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end ⚓of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah ⚓opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.
9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.
10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
11Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16“Go out of the ark, ⚓you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and ⚓be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
God’s Covenant with Creation
20Then Noah built an ⚓altar to the Lord, and took of ⚓every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered ⚓burnt offerings on the altar.
21And the Lord smelled ⚓a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again ⚓curse the ground for man’s sake, although the ⚓imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ⚓nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22“While the earth ⚓remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And ⚓day and night
Shall not cease.”
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Dej nqeg
1Vajtswv nco txog Nau‑a thiab tej tsiaj qus tsiaj nyeg huvsi uas nrog Nau‑a nyob hauv lub nkoj. Mas Vajtswv thiaj ua cua ntsawj rau saum lub ntiajteb dej thiaj nqeg.
2Tej qhov dej txhawv hauv nruab tiv txwv thiab tej rooj ntug kuj raug muab kaw, nag saum ntuj thiaj tu lawm.
3Dej thiaj nqeg saum lub ntiajteb zuj zus lawm. Thaum dhau ib puas tsib caug hnub lawm dej kuj nqeg lawm ntau.
4Hnub tim kaum xya lub xya hli lub nkoj los txawb rau saum tej roob Alalab.
5Dej nqeg zuj zus mus txog lub kaum hli. Hnub xiab ib lub kaum hli tej ncov roob kuj tshwm tuaj.
6Dhau plaub caug hnub lawm Nau‑a qheb lub qhov rais nkoj uas nws ua,
7nws tso ib tug uab lag tawm mus. Tus uab lag ntawd ya mus ya los mus txog thaum dej qhuav tag hauv lub ntiajteb.
8Nau‑a tso ib tug nquab taug ya mus, saib dej nqeg tag hauv lub ntiajteb los tsis tau.
9Tiamsis tus nquab taug nrhiav tsis tau chaw tsaws vim dej tseem nyab thoob ntiajteb, mas thiaj ya rov los rau ntawm Nau‑a hauv lub nkoj. Mas Nau‑a cev tes mus ntes tus nquab ntawd los rau hauv lub nkoj.
10Nau‑a tos dua xya hnub li tso tus nquab tawm hauv lub nkoj mus dua ib zaug.
11Thaum yuav tsaus ntuj tus nquab rov los rau ntawm Nau‑a, tus kaus ncauj kwv ib daim nplooj txiv aulib ntsuab ntsuab uas nyuam qhuav de los. Nau‑a thiaj paub tias dej nqeg tag hauv lub ntiajteb lawm.
12Nau‑a tos dua xya hnub li tso tus nquab tawm mus, mas tus nquab tsis rov los rau ntawm Nau‑a li lawm.
13Xyoo uas rau pua ib, lub ib hlis hnub xiab ib dej qhuav tag hauv lub ntiajteb, mas Nau‑a yaws tej vuas uas vov lub nkoj saib mas pom tias av qhuav lawm.
14Thaum txog hnub tim nees nkaum xya lub ob hlis lub ntiajteb qhuav tag lawm.
15Yawmsaub hais rau Nau‑a tias,
16“Koj thiab koj pojniam koj tej tub tej nyab huvsi cia li tawm hauv lub nkoj mus.
17Cia li coj txhua yam tsiaj ciaj sia uas nrog koj nyob tawm los, tsis hais nas noog tsiaj txhu thiab txhua yam tsiaj uas nkag hauv av, xwv thiaj tau yeej noob huaj vam coob rau hauv ntiajteb.”
18Nau‑a thiab nws tus pojniam thiab nws tej tub tej nyab txawm tawm los.
19Txhua yam tsiaj txhu thiab txhua yam tsiaj uas nkag hauv av thiab txhua yam noog, yog txhua yam tsiaj uas nkag thiab ya hauv lub ntiajteb, kuj tawm ib yam zuj zus hauv lub nkoj los.
20Nau‑a ua ib lub thaj rau Yawmsaub, mas muab tej tsiaj uas huv thiab tej noog uas huv qee tus los hlawv xyeem saum lub thaj ntawd.
21Thaum Yawmsaub hnov tej pa tsw qab uas hum nws lub siab mas nws hais hauv nws lub siab tias, “Kuv yuav tsis tsawm foom ntiajteb dua li lawm vim yog tim neeg, txawm yog neeg xav zaj phem rau hauv lub siab ib txwm thaum yau los kuj xij. Thiab kuv yuav tsis muab txhua yam uas ciaj sia ua kom puam tsuaj dua li lawm, ib yam li kuv tau ua los lawm.
22Thaum lub ntiajteb tseem muaj nyob, yuav muaj lub caij tseb lub caij sau, muaj lub caij txias lub caij sov, muaj lub caij ntuj no lub caij ntuj kub, muaj nruab hnub muaj hmo ntuj tsis tu ncua li.”