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And it came to pass
at the end of forty days,
that Noah opened
the window of the ark
which he had made;

...Also he sent forth
a dove from him, to see
if the waters were abated
 .from off the face of the ground.

...And the dove came in to him
in the evening; and low, in her
mouth was an olive leaf plucked
off:  so Noah knew that the
waters were abated from
off the earth.

And Noah builded an altar
unto the Lord; ...
...And the Lord smelled a
sweet savour; and
 the Lord said in his heart...
..."While the earth remaineth,
seedtime and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night
shall not cease."

...And God blessed Noah and
his sons, and said unto them,
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth."

...And God said, "This is the
token of the covenant which I
make between me and you and
every living creature that is with
you, for perpetual generations:

I do set my bow in the cloud,
and it shall be for a token of
a covenant between me and
the earth.

And it shall come to pass,
when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be
seen in the cloud;

And I will remember my
covenant, which is between me
and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the
waters shall no more become a
flood to destroy all flesh.

And the bow shall be in the
cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature
of all flesh that is upon
the earth."

And God said unto Noah,
"This is the token of
the covenant, which I have
established between me and
all flesh that is upon the earth."

[ Genesis 8:6,8,11,20-22 and
9:1,12-16 ... the Bible ]
 

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