The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

The Lord’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur.

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.