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and they began to decrease after an hundred fiftie dayes. ⁴And the arke rested the seauenth moneth, the seauen and twentieth day of the month vpon the mountaines of Armenia. ⁵But the waters for al that were going and decreasing vntil the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountaines appeared. ⁶And after that fourtie dayes were passed, Noe opening the window of the arke, which he had made, let forth a crowe: ⁷which went forth, and did ^[1] not returne, til the waters were dried vpon the earth. ⁸He sent forth also a doue after him, to see if the waters were ceased yet vpon the face of the earth. ⁹Which finding not where her foot might rest, returned to him into the arke: for the waters were vpon the whole earth: and he stretched forth his hand and caught her and brought her into the arke. ¹⁰And hauing expected yet seauen moe dayes againe he let forth a doue out of the arke. ¹¹But she came to him at euentide, carrying a bough of an oliue tree that had green leaues in her mouth. Noe therfore vnderstood that the waters were ceased vpon the earth. ¹²And he expected yet neuertheles other seauen dayes: and he sent forth a doue, which returned not any more vnto him. ¹³Therfore in the sixt hundred and one yeare, the first month, the first day of the month the waters were cleane diminished vpon the earth: & Noe opening the roofe of the arke, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried. ¹⁴In ^[2] the second moneth, the seuen and twentieth day of the month the earth was dried. ¹⁵And God spake to Noe, saying: ¹⁶Goe forth of the arke, thou and thy wife, thy sonnes and the wiues of thy sonnes with thee. ¹⁷Al cattle, that are with thee, of al flesh, as wel in foules, as in beasts, and al creepers that creep vpon the earth, bring out with thee, and goe yee vpon the earth: increase and multiplie vpon it. ¹⁸Noe therefore went forth, and his sonnes: his wife, and the wiues of his sonnes with him. ¹⁹Yea and al cattle, beastes, and creepers that creep vpon the earth, according to their kind, went forth out of the arke. ²⁰And Noe ″ built an Altar to our Lord: and taking of al cattle and foules that were cleane, offered Holocausts vpon the Altar. ²¹And our Lord smelled a sweet sauour, and said: I wil no more curse the earth for men: for the sense and cogitation of mans hart are prone to euil from their youth: I wil no more therfore strike euerie liuing soule as I haue done. ²²Al the dayes of the earth, ^[3] seed-time and haruest, cold and heate, sommer and winter, night and day shal not rest.

1. The crow returned not into the arke, but (as appeareth by the Hebrew text) going and returning rested vpon the arke.
2. They entred into the arke the 17. day, the second month of the other yeare: so they remained there a whole yeare & ten dayes.
3. In the whole yeare of the floud was no sowing nor reaping, nor pleasant varietie of times, but al desolate and miserable: henceforth God promiseth more seasonable times. S. Amb. li. de Noe & Arca. c. 23.