Genesis 7:18-10:1 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. ¹⁹ They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. ²⁰ The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. ²¹ Every living thing that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. Men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. ²⁴ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. ⁸ ¹ God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark. He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. ² The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the skies were closed. So the rain stopped falling from the sky. ³ Water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down. ⁴ And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ The waters continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. ⁶ After forty days Noah opened the window he constructed in the ark. ⁷ He sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water dried up from the earth. ⁸ Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. ⁹ The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. ¹⁰ 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. ¹³ 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. ¹⁴ By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. ¹⁵ And God said to Noah, ¹⁶ "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. ¹⁷ "Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you, the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground. They will multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it." ¹⁸ Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. ¹⁹ All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds, everything that moves on the earth came out of the ark, one kind after another. ²⁰ Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. ²¹ the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done. ²² "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease." ⁹ ¹ God blessed Noah and his sons. He said: "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. ² The fear also and dread of you be upon all beasts of the earth, and upon all fowls of the air, and upon all that creepeth on the earth, and upon all fishes of the sea, which are given unto your hands. ³ "Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. ⁴ »You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. ⁵ "I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man. ⁷ And you, be fruitful, and increase, and roam in the earth and sway in it. ⁸ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ⁹ "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰ "and with every living creature that was with you, the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you, every living creature on earth. ¹¹ I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth." ¹² God said: "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: ¹³ I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ "Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ "I will remember my covenant with you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶ "Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the long lasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." ¹⁷ And God said unto Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which have established, between me and all flesh that is on the earth. ¹⁸ Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹⁹ These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth. ²⁰ Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard. ²¹ He drank some of its wine. He became drunk and lay undressed inside his tent. ²² Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. ²³ Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders. Then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. ²⁴ Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵ And he said, "Cursed be Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers." ²⁶ He also said: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. ²⁷ "May God extend the territory of Japheth. And may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave." ²⁸ After the flood, Noah lived three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹ All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died. ¹⁰ ¹ This is the genealogy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's sons, who also had sons after the flood.