a person standing in the middle of a star filled sky

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

God talking to noah an old israeli

God talking to noah an old israeli

a huge glowing ball of light, talking to an old Israeli

a huge glowing ball of light, talking to an old Israeli

a huge ark standing on ground land

a huge ark standing on ground land

Noah peeping from a window, of his huge arkc

Noah peeping from a window, of his huge ark

water receded after huge flood, in ancient israel

water receded after huge flood, in ancient israel

dove holding green olive leaf in beak,

dove holding green olive leaf in beak, flying over Noah's ark

dove holding green olive leaf in beak, flying over Noah's ark

dove with green olive leaf in beak, flying over Noah's ark

dove with olive leaf in beak, flying over Noah's ark

dove with olive leaf in beak, flying over Noah's ark

raven crow, flying over ocean

Dry valley scene, flood waters just receeded

Noah's ark settled on dry land

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.

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.

He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

pThen he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.