The Great Flood

and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth month , on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,

and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.

And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters are on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;

and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month , in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, `Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;

and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'

And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the ark.

And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea--into your hand they have been given.

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

only flesh in its life--its blood--ye do not eat.

`And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'