Noah and the Long Quiet on the Waters

^{Genesis 6:8} But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

^{Genesis 6:9} These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

^{Genesis 6:14} Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

^{Genesis 7:5} And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

^{Genesis 7:16} And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

^{Genesis 7:11} In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

^{Genesis 7:12} And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

^{Genesis 7:24} And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

^{Genesis 8:1} And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

^{Genesis 8:4} And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

^{Genesis 8:9} But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

^{Genesis 8:11} And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

^{Genesis 8:13} And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

^{Genesis 8:16} Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.