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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 Nqig
1Vajtswv yeej nco ntsoov Nau-es thiab txhua tsav yam tsiaj uas nrog nws nyob hauv lub nkoj, nws thiaj ua kom cua ntsawj, thiab dej pib nqig zuj zus mus.
2Tej qhovdej txhawv hauv ntiajteb txawm txhaws thiab rooj ntug txawm kaw. Nag cia li tu,
3thiab dej pib nqig zuj zus tau ib puas tsib caug hnub.
4Ces hnub kaum xya lub xya hli ntuj lub nkoj thiaj los khuam rau saum lub hauv roob Alalaj.
5Dej pheej nqig zuj zus lawm, thiab hnub xiab ib lub kaum hli ntuj thiaj pom tej hauv roob tshwm tuaj.
6Tom qab plaub caug hnub, Nau-es thiaj qhib qhovrai nkoj
7tso ib tug uablag ya tawm mus, tus uablag ntawd ya yuj mus yuj los txog thaum dej nqhuab tas.
8Tom qab ntawd, Nau-es rov tso dua ib tug nquab ya tawm mus xyuas saib dej nqig tas lawm los tsis tau,
9tus nquab nrhiav tsis tau chaw tsaws li, rau qhov dej tseem nyab puv nkaus hauv ntiajteb no. Tus nquab thiaj ya rov los tsaws ntawm lub nkoj, thiab Nau-es cev tes mus muab tus nquab los rau hauv lub nkoj.
10Nws tos tau xya hnub ntxiv thiab rov tso dua ib tug nquab ya tawm mus saib.
11Thaum yuav tsaus ntuj tus nquab thiaj kwv tau ib rev nplooj txiv ntoo roj ntawm nws tus kausncauj ya rov qab los cuag Nau-es. Thaum Nau-es pom li ntawd, nws thiaj paub hais tias dej nqig ti av lawm.
12Ces nws rov tos tau xya hnub thiab tso dua ib tug nquab ya mus saib dua ib zaug ntxiv, tiamsis zaum no tus nquab tsis ya rov los lawm.
13Nau-es hnubnyoog muaj rau pua ib xyoos, rau lub ib hlis ntuj hnub xiab ib, hnub ntawd dej nqhuab tagnrho huv tibsi lawm. Nau-es yaws tej vuas uas vov lub nkoj, tsa qhovmuag saib ibncig ntawd, thiab pom av twb pib qhuav lawm.
14Ces hnub nees nkaum xya lub ob hlis ntuj lub ntiajteb no qhuav tagnrho.
15Vajtswv hais rau Nau-es hais tias,
16“Koj thiab koj pojniam, koj cov tub thiab koj cov nyab cia li tawm hauv lub nkoj no mus.
17Nej coj tagnrho tej tsiaj tsis hais tsiaj nyeg, tsiaj qus, nab, qav thiab noog huv tibsi nrog nej mus, kom tej tsiaj ntawd huamvam mus puv ntiajteb.”
18Yog li ntawd, Nau-es thiaj coj nws pojniam, nws cov tub thiab cov nyab tawm hauv lub nkoj mus.
19Tagnrho tej tsiaj loj tsiaj me uas nyob saum npoo av, tej noog uas ya saum nruab ntug, nyias ua nyias ib pab tawm hauv lub nkoj los ua tsheej pab tsheej npoj raws li nyias yam tsiaj rau sab nraud.
Nau-es Tua Tsiaj Fij rau Vajtswv
20Nau-es teeb tau ib lub thaj rau tus TSWV, nws muab tej tsiaj huv thiab tej noog ib yam ib tug coj los tua thiab muab hlawv tagnrho fij rau Vajtswv saum lub thaj ntawd.
21Tej pa khoom fij ntawd tsw qab ntxiag ua rau tus TSWV txaus siab heev, thiab tus TSWV xav hais tias, “Kuv yuav tsis foom phem rau lub ntiajteb ib zaug ntxiv, vim tej uas neeg ua ntawd li lawm, kuv paub neeg yeej ibtxwm xav phem thaum yau los. Kuv yuav tsis ua rau txhua yam uas muaj sia kom raug puastsuaj li uas kuv tau ua tas los no lawm.
22Yog lub ntiajteb no tseem muaj nyob, yuav muaj caij cog qoobloo thiab muaj caij sau qoobloo, muaj caij ntuj kub ntuj no, muaj caij ntuj qhua thiab caij ntuj nag, muaj nruab hnub thiab hmo ntuj mus ibtxhis tsis kawg.”