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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
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Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
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and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
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Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.
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The Three Visitors
The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
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One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
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The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.
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Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.
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On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
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So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
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Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
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But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”
