AFTER THE FLOOD

    God remembered Noah, his family, and all the animals that were with him in the ark.  Then God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters started to go down.   The rain from heaven stopped, and the waters moved away continually from the earth.  At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
    Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.   The waters kept going down until the tenth month.  In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

    At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark and sent out a raven, which kept going back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

      He also sent out a dove, to see if the waters had dried up from the face of the ground.
 
 

     But the dove found no resting place, and she returned to the ark, for the waters had not completey dried up.  So, Noah brought the dove back into the ark.

     Noah waited another seven days, and sent the dove out from the ark again.  This time the dove came back in the evening, and had a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth.  So, Noah knew that the waters had gone down.

        Then God told Noah to go out of the ark along with his wife, and his sons and their wives.  He was to bring out with him all the land animals, birds, and creeping things.  Noah was told to multiply and fill the earth
      So Noah and his family went out.  All eight of them along with all the animals, every bird, and every creeping thing on the earth went out of the ark.

      So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
God told Noah that the beasts of the earth, birds of the air, and all the fish of the sea were given to Noah and his family.  And every moving thing that lives was  food for them.  God gave them everything they needed including green herbs.
    But God told them they were not to eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.  God warned Noah and his family that "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
    God again told Noah to be fruitful and multiply.
    Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons and established a covenant with him.  God promised that
never again would all flesh be cut off by the waters of a  flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

 

    This is the sign of the covenant which God made  between Him and Noah, and every living creature  for all generations.  God set His rainbow in the cloud as a sign of the covenant between Him and the earth. 
    God said, "It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow 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; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
      And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."

      Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.   These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.  So Noah was 950 years old when he died.