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The End of the Flood
Genesis Chapter 8.1-19
Good News Translation (GNT)
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1 God had not forgotten Noah and all the
animals with him in the boat; he caused a
wind to blow, and the water started going
down.
2 The outlets of the water beneath the earth and
the floodgates of the sky were closed.
The rain stopped,
3 and the water gradually went down
for 150 days.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month
the boat came to rest on a mountain in the
Ararat range.
5 The water kept going down, and on the first
day of the tenth month the tops of the
mountains appeared.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window
7 and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but
kept flying around until the water was
completely gone.
8 Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if
the water had gone down,
9 but since the water still covered all the land,
the dove did not find a place to light. It flew
back to the boat, and Noah reached out and
took it in.
10 He waited another seven days and sent out
the dove again.
11 It returned to him in the evening with a fresh
olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the
water had gone down.
12 Then he waited another seven days and sent
out the dove once more; this time it did not
come back.
13 When Noah was 601 years old, on the first
day of the first month, the water was gone.
Noah removed the covering of the boat,
looked around, and saw that the ground was
getting dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second
month the earth was completely dry.
15 God said to Noah,
16 "Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons,
and their wives.
17 Take all the birds and animals out with you,
so that they may reproduce and spread
over all the earth."
18 So Noah went out of the boat with his wife,
his sons, and their wives.
19 All the animals and birds went out of the boat
in groups of their own kind.
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Taken from 'word-on-the-web' supplied by the
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The End of the Flood
Genesis Chapter 8.1-19
Noah sent out a raven, an unclean bird,
but it just flew about.
Maybe it landed on, and ate from,
dead floating things.
The dove was different;
it couldn't find a place to land
so it came back to Noah and to
the place of safety.
We all have choices about what we do
but are you doing and going to the right places?
When the dove was sent out again
it found a place to land,
vegetation hadn't been destroyed,
and the dove came back with a fresh
olive leaf in its beak.
That has been a symbol of peace for years.
Noah remained patient even though he knew
the ground was almost dry.
The dove stayed away when
it was in a safe place.
We should be the same -
come back to the ark of safety in Jesus
if you're unsure as to what's right,
check things out with Him.
Remember, He cares about you
and the decisions you make
and places you go.
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