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📚And God remembered 📖 Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark, and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 📚Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from heaven was stopped,8:2 Ararat is a group of mountain peaks in northeastern Turkey. The highest peak is nearly 4,300 meters high.⚜
3 📚and the waters steadily receded 📖 from the earth. And at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4 📚And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on 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, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 📚And it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 📚And he sent out a raven, which flew here and there until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 📚He also sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the earth; 9 📚but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and so she returned to him in the ark, for the waters still covered the surface of the whole earth. Then he put out his hand, and took her, and brought her in to him in the ark. 10 📚And he waited still another seven days, and then again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11 📚And the dove came to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12 📚And he waited still another seven days, and sent out the dove. She did not return again to him any more.
13 And it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on 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 out, and now the surface of the earth was dry. 14 📚And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:13-14 The flood began in Noah’s 600th year, 2nd month, 17th day (Gen 7:11). The waters were completely dried up in his 601st year, 2nd month, 27th day. The total time was one year and eleven days, according to the method they used for determining a year. (The Hebrews determined their days and years by the movement of the moon. The total time according to the system we use now, based on the movements of earth and sun, was exactly a year). The flood was at its full power for 150 days (Gen 7:24). This shows that the flood was worldwide and not merely over the area where Noah was. No local flood would be at its height for so long, or rise so high, or take so long to recede.⚜
15 And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 📚“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 📚Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, all flesh, both of birds, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and increase in number on the earth”.
18 📚And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went out. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, and whatever crawls on the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark.
20 📚And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar 📖. 21 📚And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma 📖, and the LORD said in his heart, “Never again will I curse the ground on man’s account. For the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth 📖. And never again will I destroy every living thing, as I have done. 22 📚While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease”.