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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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洪水消退
1上帝記念挪亞和挪亞方舟裏的一切走獸牲畜。上帝使風吹地，水勢漸落。
2深淵的泉源和天上的窗戶都關閉了，雨不再從天降下。
3水從地上逐漸消退。過了一百五十天，水就退了。
4七月十七日，方舟停在亞拉臘山上。
5水繼續退去，直到十月；十月初一，山頂都露出來了。
6過了四十天，挪亞打開他所造的方舟的窗戶，
7放出一隻烏鴉。那烏鴉飛來飛去，直到地上的水都乾了。
8他又從他那裏放出一隻鴿子，要看水從地面上退了沒有。
9但全地面都是水，鴿子找不到落腳之地，就回到方舟挪亞那裏。挪亞伸手接了鴿子，把牠帶進方舟。
10挪亞又另外等了七天，再把鴿子從方舟放出去。
11到了晚上，鴿子回到他那裏，看哪，嘴裏有一片剛啄下來的橄欖葉，挪亞就知道水已經從地上退了。
12他又另外等了七天，再放出鴿子，這次鴿子不再回到他那裏了。
13當挪亞六百零一歲，正月初一的時候，地上的水都乾了。挪亞打開方舟的蓋觀看，看哪，地面乾了。
14到了二月二十七日，地就都乾了。
15上帝對挪亞說：
16「你同你的妻子、兒子、媳婦都要出方舟。
17凡與你一起有血肉的生物，就是飛鳥、牲畜和地上爬的一切爬行動物，都要帶出來。 牠們要在地上滋生，繁殖增多。」
18於是挪亞同他的兒子、妻子、媳婦都出來了。
19一切走獸、爬行動物和飛鳥，地上所有的動物，各從其類，也都出了方舟。
挪亞獻祭
20挪亞為耶和華築了一座壇，拿各種潔淨的牲畜和各種潔淨的飛鳥，獻在壇上為燔祭。
21耶和華聞了那馨香之氣，耶和華心裏說：「我不再因人的緣故詛咒土地，因為人從幼年就心裏懷着惡念；我也不再照我曾做的毀滅一切生物了。
22地還存在的時候，撒種、收割、寒暑、冬夏、晝夜都永不止息。」