The Flood Subsides

8 But ^(A)God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and ^(B)God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. ² Also ^(C)the fountains of the deep and the ^[a]floodgates of the sky were closed, and ^(D)the rain from the sky was restrained; ³ and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end ^(E)of 150 days the water decreased. ⁴ Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, ^(F)the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

²⁶ He *said to them, “Why are you ^[a]afraid, ^(A)you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and ^[b]it became perfectly calm.

The Voice of the Lord in the Storm.

A Psalm of David.

⁶ Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the ^(A)window of the ark which he had made;

The Coming of Christ

¹¹ And I saw ^(A)heaven opened, and behold, a ^(B)white horse, and He who sat on it is called ^(C)Faithful and True, and in ^(D)righteousness He judges and wages war.

Scene in Heaven

4 After ^(A)these things I looked, and behold, ^(B)a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, ^(C)like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “^(D)Come up here, and I will ^(E)show you what must take place after these things.”

⁶ Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the ^(A)window of the ark which he had made; ⁷ and he sent out a raven, and it ^[a]flew here and there until the water was dried up ^[b]from the earth. ⁸ Then he sent out a ^[c]dove, to see if the water was low on the ^[d]surface of the land; ⁹ but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the ^[e]surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself. ¹⁰ So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came to him in ^[f]the evening, and behold, in its ^[g]beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. ¹² Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out ^(B)the dove; but it did not return to him again.

^19 (A)And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. ^20 (B)Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.