1Men Gud glemte ikke Noa og dyrene i arken. Han standsede vandstrømmen fra jordens indre og lukkede himlens sluser, så styrtregnen holdt op. Samtidig sendte han en vind, så vandet begyndte at synke.3Vandet sank lidt efter lidt, og efter at arken i 150 dage havde været prisgivet vandmasserne,4gik den på grund i Ararats bjerge. Det skete den 17. dag i den syvende måned.5Vandet fortsatte langsomt med at synke. Først i den tiende måned kom bjergtinderne til syne.6Noa ventede i endnu 40 dage. Derefter åbnede han en luge7og sendte en ravn af sted. Ravnen kom ikke tilbage, men fløj omkring, indtil vandet var borte fra jorden.8Derefter sendte Noa en due af sted for at se, om den kunne finde tørt land,9men duen fandt ingen steder at lande. Vandet stod endnu for højt, så den vendte tilbage til arken. Noa rakte hånden ud og tog duen ind igen.10Syv dage senere sendte Noa duen af sted for anden gang,11og denne gang vendte den tilbage ved aftenstid med et frisk olivenblad i næbbet. Så var Noa klar over, at jorden var ved at blive tør.12En uge senere sendte han duen af sted igen, og denne gang vendte den ikke tilbage.13På den første dag i den første måned i det år, Noa fyldte 601 år, fjernede han noget af arkens tag og så, at det meste af vandet var væk.14Men først to måneder senere var jorden tilstrækkelig tør, så de kunne gå ud.15Så sagde Gud til Noa:16„Gå ud af arken med din kone, dine sønner og deres koner17og tag alle fuglene og dyrene med dig, så de kan formere sig og sprede sig over jorden.”18Noa forlod da arken sammen med sin kone, sine sønner og deres koner.19Og alle dyrene forlod arken parvis.20Derpå byggede Noa et alter og ofrede nogle af de rene* dyr og fugle til Herren.21Brændofferet behagede Herren, og han sagde til sig selv: „Jeg vil aldrig mere forbande jorden på grund af menneskene, selvom deres tanker er onde fra ungdommen af. Jeg vil aldrig mere udslette alt liv på jorden.22Så længe jorden står, skal forår og efterår, kulde og varme, sommer og vinter, dag og nat ikke ophøre.”
King James Version
1And 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 asswaged;2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.5And 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.6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;9But 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.10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.13And 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.14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.15And God spake unto Noah, saying,16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'wives with thee.17Bring 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 be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'wives with him:19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man' sake; for the imagination of man' heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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