Genesis 8

1 Forsooth the Lord had mind of Noah, and of all living beasts, and of all work beasts, that were with him in the ship; and he brought a wind on the earth. And the waters were decreased, or assuaged,⋮

2 and the wells of the sea were closed, and the windows of heaven were closed, and rains of heaven were ceased.⋮

3 And the waters turned again from off the earth, and went again, and began to be decreased, or assuaged, after an hundred and fifty days.⋮

4 And the ship rested in the seventh month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, on the hills or mounts of Armenia.⋮

5 And soothly the waters went and decreased till to the tenth month, for in the tenth month, in the first day of the month, the tops of the hills appeared.⋮

6 And when forty days had passed, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,⋮

7 and sent out a crow, which went out, and turned not again till the waters were dried on the earth.⋮

8 Also Noah sent out a culver after him, to see if the waters had ceased then on the face of the earth;⋮

9 and when the culver found not where her foot should rest, she turned again to him into the ship, for the waters were on all the earth; and Noah held forth his hand, and brought the culver taken into the ship.⋮

10 Soothly when other seven days were abided afterward, again he sent out a culver from the ship;⋮

11 and she came to him at eventide, and bare in her mouth a branch of an olive tree with green leaves. There-fore Noah understood that the waters had ceased or abated on earth;⋮

12 and nevertheless he abode seven other days, and sent out a culver, which turned not again to him.⋮

13 Therefore in the six hundred and one year of the life of Noah, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the waters were decreased on earth; and Noah opened the roof of the ship, and beheld, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.⋮

14 In the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was made dry.⋮

15 Soothly the Lord spake to Noah; and said,⋮

16 Go out of the ship, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee;⋮

17 and lead out with thee all living beasts that be with thee of each flesh, as well in volatiles, as in unreason-able beasts, and all reptiles or all creeping beasts that creep on the earth; and enter ye on the earth, increase ye, and be ye multiplied on earth.⋮

18 Therefore Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him;⋮

19 but also all living beasts, and work beasts, and birds, and reptiles that creep on the earth, by their kind, went out of the ship.⋮

20 Forsooth Noah builded an altar to the Lord, and he took of all clean beasts and birds, and offered burnt sacrifices on the altar.⋮

21 And the Lord savoured the odour of sweetness, and said to him, I shall no more curse the earth for men, for the wit and thought of man’s heart be ready, either prone, into evil from young waxing age; therefore I shall no more smite each living soul, as I did;⋮

22 in all the days of the earth, seed and ripe corn, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not rest.⋮