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    "title": "Genesis 8 — The waters recede, the altar built",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:1",
        "text": "The Elohim remembered Noah, and every wild animal and every domesticated animal that was with him in the ark; and the Elohim caused a breath to pass over the land, and the waters subsided."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:2",
        "text": "The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the skies were closed, and the rain from the skies was held back."
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:3",
        "text": "The waters receded from upon the land, going and returning; and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:4",
        "text": "In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:5",
        "text": "The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:6",
        "text": "At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:7",
        "text": "He sent out the raven, and it went out, going to and fro, until the waters dried up from the land."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:8",
        "text": "Then he sent out the dove from him, to see whether the waters had lightened from the face of the ground."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:9",
        "text": "But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the land. He put out his hand and took her, and brought her to him into the ark."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:10",
        "text": "He waited another seven days, and again sent the dove out from the ark."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:11",
        "text": "The dove came to him at evening time — and behold, a fresh olive leaf in her mouth! Noah knew that the waters had lightened from upon the land."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:12",
        "text": "He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she did not return to him again."
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:13",
        "text": "In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters dried up from on the land. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked — and behold, the face of the ground had dried."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:14",
        "text": "In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land was dry."
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        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:15",
        "text": "The Elohim spoke to Noah, saying,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:16",
        "text": "\"Come out of the ark — you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:17",
        "text": "Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh — birds, cattle, every creeping thing that creeps upon the land — that they may swarm on the land, and be fruitful and multiply on the land.\""
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:18",
        "text": "Noah came out — his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him."
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        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:19",
        "text": "Every living thing, every creeping thing, and every bird — everything that moves upon the land — went out from the ark by their families."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:20",
        "text": "Noah built an altar to YHWH; and he took some of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered whole burnt offerings on the altar."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:21",
        "text": "YHWH smelled the soothing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, \"I will not again curse the ground because of the human, for the inclination of the heart of the human is evil from his youth; and I will not again strike down every living thing as I have done."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-8:22",
        "text": "While the land yet endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night — these shall not cease.\""
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