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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上帝记念挪亚和挪亚方舟里的一切走兽牲畜。上帝使风吹地，水势渐落。
2深渊的泉源和天上的窗户都关闭了，雨不再从天降下。
3水从地上逐渐消退。过了一百五十天，水就退了。
4七月十七日，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。
5水继续退去，直到十月；十月初一，山顶都露出来了。
6过了四十天，挪亚打开他所造的方舟的窗户，
7放出一只乌鸦。那乌鸦飞来飞去，直到地上的水都干了。
8他又从他那里放出一只鸽子，要看水从地面上退了没有。
9但全地面都是水，鸽子找不到落脚之地，就回到方舟挪亚那里。挪亚伸手接了鸽子，把它带进方舟。
10挪亚又另外等了七天，再把鸽子从方舟放出去。
11到了晚上，鸽子回到他那里，看哪，嘴里有一片刚啄下来的橄榄叶，挪亚就知道水已经从地上退了。
12他又另外等了七天，再放出鸽子，这次鸽子不再回到他那里了。
13当挪亚六百零一岁，正月初一的时候，地上的水都干了。挪亚打开方舟的盖观看，看哪，地面干了。
14到了二月二十七日，地就都干了。
15上帝对挪亚说：
16“你同你的妻子、儿子、媳妇都要出方舟。
17凡与你一起有血肉的生物，就是飞鸟、牲畜和地上爬的一切爬行动物，都要带出来。 它们要在地上滋生，繁殖增多。”
18于是挪亚同他的儿子、妻子、媳妇都出来了。
19一切走兽、爬行动物和飞鸟，地上所有的动物，各从其类，也都出了方舟。
挪亚献祭
20挪亚为耶和华筑了一座坛，拿各种洁净的牲畜和各种洁净的飞鸟，献在坛上为燔祭。
21耶和华闻了那馨香之气，耶和华心里说：“我不再因人的缘故诅咒土地，因为人从幼年就心里怀着恶念；我也不再照我曾做的毁灭一切生物了。
22地还存在的时候，撒种、收割、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜都永不止息。”