Listening A1: Genesis Chapter 1 - Genesis 8

God remembered Noah, the animals, and the cows in the boat.

God made wind to blow over the earth, and the water went down.

The deep water springs and the sky windows closed, and the rain stopped.

The water moved off the earth again, and after one hundred and fifty days the water went down.

The boat stopped on the mountains of Ararat in the seventh month on the seventeenth day.

The water kept going down until the tenth month, and on the first day the top of the mountains could be seen.

After forty days Noah opened the window of the boat, and he sent out a raven.

It flew back and forth until the earth was dry.

He sent out a dove to see if the water had gone away from the ground.

But the dove had no place to sit, so it came back to him in the boat, because the water covered all the earth.

He held the dove and brought it into the boat.

He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again.

In the evening the dove came back with an olive leaf in its mouth, and Noah saw that the water had gone down.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove, and it did not come back again.

In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the earth was dry.

Noah took off the cover of the boat and saw that the ground was dry.

On the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

God said to Noah, "Come out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives."

Take all the living things with you, every bird, cow, and small animal, so they can have many babies on the earth.

Noah, his sons, his wife, and their wives came out, and every animal and bird and small thing came out with them.

Noah built an altar and gave offerings of clean animals and birds.

God liked the smell and said he would not curse the ground again for people, even though their hearts are bad from when they are young.

He will not hurt all living things again like before.

As long as the earth is here there will still be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.