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  • The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground. (Genesis 7, 17)

  • The waters rose, swelling higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters. (Genesis 7, 18)

  • The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were submerged. (Genesis 7, 19)

  • The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains. (Genesis 7, 20)

  • The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days. (Genesis 7, 24)

  • But God had Noah in mind, and all the wild animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. God sent a wind across the earth and the waters began to subside. (Genesis 8, 1)

  • Little by little, the waters ebbed from the earth. After a hundred and fifty days the waters fell, (Genesis 8, 3)

  • The waters gradually fell until the tenth month when, on the first day of the tenth month, the mountain tops appeared. (Genesis 8, 5)

  • and released a raven, which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on earth. (Genesis 8, 7)

  • He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of the earth. (Genesis 8, 8)

  • In the evening, the dove came back to him and there in its beak was a freshly-picked olive leaf! So Noah realised that the waters were receding from the earth. (Genesis 8, 11)

  • It was in the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month and on the first of the month, that the waters began drying out on earth. Noah lifted back the hatch of the ark and looked out. The surface of the ground was dry! (Genesis 8, 13)


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