The Great Flood

And the waters were going and decreasing vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth were the toppes of the mountaines seene.

So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,

And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.

Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.

But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote: therefore she returned vnto him into the Arke (for the waters were vpon the whole earth) and he put forth his hand, and receiued her, and tooke her to him into the Arke.

And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.

And the doue came to him in ye euening, and loe, in her mouth was an oliue leafe that she had pluckt: whereby Noah knewe that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Notwithstanding he wayted yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.

And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.

And in the second moneth, in the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

Then God spake to Noah, saying,

Goe forth of the Arke, thou and thy wife, and thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee.

Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite and increase vpon ye earth.

So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.

Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar.

And the Lord smellled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.

Hereafter seede time and haruest, and colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.

And God blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.

Also the feare of you, and the dread of you shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the heauen, vpon all that moueth on the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they deliuered.

Euery thing that moueth and liueth, shall be meate for you: as the greene herbe, haue I giuen you all things.

But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.

For surely I will require your blood, wherein your liues are: at the hand of euery beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, euen at the hand of a mans brother will I require the life of man.

Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.

But bring ye forth fruite and multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.