The flood of waters.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God bad commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

15 And they "went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, "as God had commanded him and the LORD shut him in.

17 P And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

CHAPTER VIII. The waters assuage. 4 The ark resteth on Ararat. 7 The raven and the dove. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth out of the ark. 20 He buildeth an altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God accepteth, and promiseth to curse the earth

no more.

A

ND God "remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: band God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged.

Noah leaveth the ark.

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and d the rain from heaven was restrained.

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

B. C. 2349.

ech. 7. 11.

d Job 38. 37. Heb. in going and returning. ch. 7. 24.

Heb.were in going and de creasing.

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him Heb. caused into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

her to come.

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15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy 9 ch. 7. 13. wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and ibe fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their † kinds, went forth out of the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of kevery clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offer ings on the altar.

21 And the LORD smelled it a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again "ourse the ground any more for man's sake; for the "imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 P+ While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not

cease.

ch. 7. 15.

ich. 1. 22. Heb. fami

Lies.

k Lev, ch. 11. Lov. 1. 9.

Ea. 20. 41.
2 Cor. 2. 15.
Eph. 5. 2.

+ Heb. a savour of rest. m ch.3.17.& 6. 17.

ch. 6. 5. Job 14. 4. & 15. 14. Ps. 51. 5. Jer. 17. 9. Matt. 15. 19. Rom. 1.21.& 3. 23.

ch. 9. 11, 15. Is. 54. 9.

↑ Heb. As yet all the days of the earth. 9 Jer. 33. 20, 25.

God's covenant with Noah.

B. C. 2348.

a ch. 1. 28.

ver. 7, 19, ch. 10, 32. 6 ch. 1. 28. Hos. 2. 18.

CHAPTER IX.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

tiply, and replenish the earth.

26 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the Acts 10. 12, fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

e Deut. 12. 15.

& 14.3, 9, 11.

13.

d ch. 1. 29.

e Rom. 14, 14, $20.

1 Cor. 10. 23, 26.

Col. 2. 16.

1 Tim. 4. 3,4. Lev. 17. 10,

11. 14. & 19. 26.

Deut. 12. 23. 1 Sam. 14.33, 34.

Acts 15. 20, 29.

9 Ex. 21. 28.

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

4f But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and hat the hand of man; at the band of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply;

bring forth abundantly in the earth, and

h ch. 4. 9. 10. multiply therein.

Ps. 9. 12.

i Acts 17. 26. k Ex. 21.12,14. Lev. 21. 17. Matt. 26. 52. Rev. 13. 10. I ch. 1. 27. m ver. 1, 19. ch. 1. 28.

n ch. 6. 18. o Is. 54. 9. p Ps. 145. 9. q Is. 54. 9.

r ch. 17. 11.

Rev. 4. 3.

t Ex. 28. 12. Lev. 26, 42, 45. H. 16. 60.

ch.17.13,19.

z ch. 10, 6. + Heb. Cke naan. 2347.

y ch. 5. 32, 2 ch. 10. 32. 1Chr.1.4, &c.

a ch, 3. 19, 23. & 4. 2. Prov. 12. 11. b Prov, 20. 1. 1 Cor. 10. 12.

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9 And I, "behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 And God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember "the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that ia upon the earth.

18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

21 And he drank of the wine, band was

2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

3. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmab.

4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

e Josh. 9. 23. 1 Kings 9.20, 21.

f Pa. 144. 15. Heb. 11. 16.

per

Or, servant to them. Or, suade. 9 Eph. 2. 13, H. & 3. 6. 1998.

a eh. 9.1,7,19.

1 Chr. 1. 5,

B. C. + Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Goabout 2218. morrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

+Heb. Assah.

* 1 Chr. 1. 17, &c.

↑ Heb. packshad.

20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat († Salah; and SaShelah begat Eber.

Ar

! ch. 11. 12

↑ Heb.

lah.

m1 Chr. 1. 19. 2247.

1 That is, DiVION

aver. 1.

ch. 9. 19.

about 2247. ↑ Heb. lip. ↑ Heb, words. 1 Or, eastward, as eh. 13. 11.

2 Sam. 6. 2. with 1 Chr. 13. 6.

↑ Heb. a man said to his neighbour.

↑ Heb. burn them to burning. a Deut. 1. 28. 6 ch. 18. 21. e ch. 9. 19. Acta 17. 28. d ver. 1.

ePa. 2. L fch. 1. 28. Ps. 2. 4. Acts 24,5,6. 9 ch. 42. 23. Deut. 28. 49. Jer. 5. 15. 1Cor.14.2.11.

A Luke 1. 51.

ch. 10.25.32. That is, Confusion.

1 Cor. 14. 23. ch, 10. 22.

25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

CHAPTER XI.

The generations of Terah.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty | B. C. 2311. years, and begat Salah:

36.

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Sam See Luke 3. lah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16" And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg :

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat P Serug:

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat ? Terah:

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat, sons and daughters.

bal. The confusion of tongues. 10 The gener ations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran.

AND the whole earth was of one, t lan

guage, and of one t speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all done language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called "Babel;

k because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat 1 Chr. 1. 17. Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

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God calleth Abram, and blesseth him. 3 The prom a ch. 15. 7. Neh. 9. 7. ise in him. 4 Abram departeth with Lot from Is. 41. 2. Haran. 6 He journeyeth through the land of Acts 7. 3. Canaan, 7 which is promised him in a vision. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt, where he Heb. 11. 8. feigneth that Sarai is his sister. 14 Pharaoh b ch. 17. 6. & taketh her from him; 17 but is compelled by plagues to restore her.

NOW the LORD had said unto Abram,

Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

26 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; dand thou shalt be a blessing:

3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: fand in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had

18. 18. Deut, 26. 5. 1 Kings 3, 8. ech. 24. 35. d ch. 28. 4.

Gal, 3. 14.

ech, 27, 29. Ex. 23. 22. Num. 24. 9.

ch. 18. 18. & 22.18. & 26.4. Ps. 72. 17. Acts 3. 25. Gal. 3. 8.

Abram's sojourn in Egypt.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

6 And Abram ipassed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, "Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and P called upon the name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, †going on still toward the south.

10 And there was "a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art "a fair woman to look upon : 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say. This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's

house.

16 And he " entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, ech.20.9.&26. What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

10.

d Prov. 21. 1.

19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

20 d And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

CHAPTER XIII. Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 7 Because of the disagreement between their herdmen, they part asunder 10 Lot chooseth the plain of Jordan. 14 God reneweth the promise to Abram. 18 He removeth to Hebron, and there buildeth an

altar.

Beth-el and Hai;

4 Unto the d place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 And ƒthe land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: hand the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, iLet there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be + brethren.

9k Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

B. C. about 1918.

deh. 12. 7. 8. e Pa. 116. 17. fch. 36. 7.

9 ch. 26. 20. h ch. 12. 6.

men

i1 Cor. 6. 7. ↑ Heb. brethren. See ch. 11. 27,31. Ex. 2. 13. Ps. 133. 1. Acts i. 26.

k ch. 20. 15. &
34. 10.

Rom. 12. 18.
Heb. 12. 14.
James 3. 17.

ch. 19. 17.

Deut. 34. 3.
Ps. 107. 34.

ch. 19.24,25. o ch. 2. 10. Is. 51. 3. p ch. 14. 2,8.& 19. 22. gch. 19. 29.

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD "destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, ch. 14. 12. & as thou comest unto PZoar.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot 2 dwelt in the cities of the plain, and "pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked

and t sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot" was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

19. 1..

2 Pet. 2. 7, 8.

sch. 18. 20.
Ez. 16. 49.
2 Pet. 2. 7, 8.
about 1917.
ch. 6. 11.

u ver. 11.
w ch. 28. 14.

ch. 12. 7. &
15. 18. & 17.
8. & 24.7. &
26.4.
Num. 34. 12.
Deut. 34. 4.
Acta 7. 5.

15 For all the land which thou seest, "to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for y2 Chr. 20. 7.

Ps. 37. 22, 29. & 112. 2.

ch. 15. 5. & 22. 17. & 26. 4. & 28. 14. & 32. 12. Ex. 32. 13. Num. 23. 10. Deut. 1. 10.

1 Kings 4.20. 1 Chr. 27. 23. Is. 48. 19. Jer. 33. 22. Rom. 4. 16. Heb. 11. 12. a ch. 14. 13. + Heb.plains. 6 ch. 35. 27. & 37. 14.

AND it came to pass in the days of Amralasar, Chedorlaomer king of 6 Elam, and Tiphel king" of Shinar, Arioch king of El-a ch. 10. 10. & dal king of nations;

11. 2. b Is. 11. 11.

a ch. 12. 9.

b ch. 24. 35. Ps. 112. 3. Prov. 10. 22. e ch. 12. 8, 9.

and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, "into the south.

26 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where

3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

4 Twelve years ƒ they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedor

eNum.34. 12. Deut. 3. 17. Josh. 3, 16. Ps. 107. 34. fch. 9. 26. about 1913.

The flood of waters.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God bad commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the

earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

15 And they "went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, "as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

17 P And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Noah leaveth the ark.

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and d the rain from heaven was restrained.

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

B. C. 2349.

ech. 7. 11.

d Job 38. 37. † Heb. in going and returning. ch. 7. 24.

† Heb.were in going and de creasing.

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the fch. 6. 16. ark which he had made:

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Heb. in going forth and returning.

+ Heb. caused her to come.

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15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy g ch. 7. 13. wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and ibe fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their † kinds, went forth out of the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of kevery clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 And the LORD smelled it a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the "imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 P+ While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not

cease.

ch. 7. 15.

ich. 1. 22.

↑ Heb. families.

k Lev. ch. 11.
Lev. 1. 9.
Ex. 20. 41.

2 Cor. 2. 15.
Eph. 5. 2.

Heb. a savour of rest. m ch.3.17.& 6. 17.

n ch. 6. 5.

Job 14. 4. &
15. 14.

Ps. 51. 5.
Jer. 17. 9.
Matt. 15. 19.
Rom. 1.21. &
3. 23.

o ch. 9. 11, 15. p Is. 54. y.

+ Heb. As yet

all the days of the earth. Jer. 33. 20,