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19 Finally, the water covered even the highest moun-
tains on the earth, 20 rising more than twenty-two
feet* above the highest peaks. 21All the living things
on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground,
and all the people. 22 Everything that breathed and
lived on dry land died. 23God wiped out every living
thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals
that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the
sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.
24And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
The Flood Recedes
But God remembered Noah and all the wild
animals and livestock with him in the boat. He
sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. 2The underground waters
stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the
sky were stopped. 3 So the floodwaters gradually
receded from the earth. After 150 days, 4exactly five
months from the time the flood began,* the boat
came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5Two and
a half months later,* as the waters continued to go
down, other mountain peaks became visible.
6 After another forty days, Noah opened the
window he had made in the boat 7 and released a
raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. 8He also released
a dove to see if the water had receded and it could
find dry ground. 9But the dove could find no place
to land because the water still covered the ground.
So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his
hand and drew the dove back inside. 10 After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove
again. 11 This time the dove returned to him in the
evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then
Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
12 He waited another seven days and then released
the dove again. This time it did not come back.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of
the new year, ten and a half months after the flood
began,* the floodwaters had almost dried up from
the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat
and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
14 Two more months went by,* and at last the earth
was dry!
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Leave the boat, all
of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their
wives. 17 Release all the animals—the birds, the
livestock, and the small animals that scurry along
the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply
throughout the earth.”
18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives
left the boat. 19 And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and
there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that
purpose.* 21 And the Lord was pleased with the
aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will
never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or
imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will
never again destroy all living things. 22 As long
as the earth remains, there will be planting and
harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day
and night.”
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GENESIS 9
God Confirms His Covenant
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told
them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.
2 All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the
sky, all the small animals that scurry along the
ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you
with fear and terror. I have placed them in your
power. 3 I have given them to you for food, just as
I have given you grain and vegetables. 4 But you
must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood
in it.
5 “And I will require the blood of anyone who
takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills
a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a
fellow human must die. 6If anyone takes a human
life, that person’s life will also be taken by human
hands. For God made human beings* in his own
image. 7Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”
8 Then God told Noah and his sons, 9 “I hereby
confirm my covenant with you and your descendants, 10and with all the animals that were on the
boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the
wild animals—every living creature on earth. 11Yes,
I am confirming my covenant with you. Never
again will floodwaters kill all living creatures;
never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
12 Then God said, “I am giving you a sign of my
covenant with you and with all living creatures, for
all generations to come. 13I have placed my rainbow
in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you
and with all the earth. 14 When I send clouds over
the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,
15 and I will remember my covenant with you and
with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life. 16When I see the rainbow in
the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant
between God and every living creature on earth.”
17 Then God said to Noah, “Yes, this rainbow is the
sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the
creatures on earth.”
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Noah’s Sons
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with
their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham
is the father of Canaan.) 19From these three sons of
Noah came all the people who now populate the
earth.
20 After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the
ground, and he planted a vineyard. 21 One day he
drank some wine he had made, and he became
drunk and lay naked inside his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and
went outside and told his brothers. 23 Then Shem
and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father.
As they did this, they looked the other way so they
would not see him naked.
5:29 Noah sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean “relief” or
“comfort.” 6:2 Hebrew daughters of men; also in 6:4. 6:3 Greek
version reads will not remain in. 6:14a Traditionally rendered an ark.
6:14b Or gopher wood. 6:15 Hebrew 300 cubits [138 meters] long, 50
cubits [23 meters] wide, and 30 cubits [13.8 meters] high. 6:16 Hebrew
an opening of 1 cubit [46 centimeters]. 7:2 Hebrew of each clean
animal; similarly in 7:8. 7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters].
8:4 Hebrew on the seventeenth day of the seventh month; see 7:11.
8:5 Hebrew On the first day of the tenth month; see 7:11 and note on 8:4.
8:13 Hebrew On the first day of the first month; see 7:11. 8:14 Hebrew
The twenty-seventh day of the second month arrived; see note on 8:13.
8:20 Hebrew every clean animal and every clean bird. 9:6 Or man;
Hebrew reads ha-adam.
