When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.<n id="1" />p>

The waters kept receding steadily<n id="1" /> from the earth, so that they<n id="2" /> had gone down<n id="3" /> by the end of the 150 days.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying<n id="1" /> back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Noah<n id="1" /> sent out a dove<n id="2" /> to see if the waters had receded<n id="3" /> from the surface of the ground.

<p class="bodytext">He said, &#8220;My lord,<n id="1" /> if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife<n id="1" /> and said to the sons of Heth,<n id="2" />

Rebekah looked up<n id="1" /> and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.<n id="1" /> It was so.<n id="2" />

Look! You are driving me off the land<n id="1" /> today, and I must hide from your presence.<n id="2" /> I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

When<n id="1" /> the dove returned to him in the evening, there was<n id="2" /> a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled<n id="1" /> toward the east.p> <p class="bodytext">So the relatives separated from each other.<n id="2" />

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines<n id="1" /> and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So his father Isaac said to him,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed,<n id="1" /> your home will bep> <p class="poetry">away from the richness<n id="2" /> of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">and away from the dew of the sky above.p>

<p class="poetry">You will live by your swordp> <p class="poetry">but you will serve your brother.p> <p class="poetry">When you grow restless,p> <p class="poetry">you will tear off his yokep> <p class="poetry">from your neck.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they said, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water<n id="1" /> the sheep.&#8221;p>

In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">because of the God of your father,p> <p class="poetry">who will help you,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the sovereign God,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">who will bless you<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">with blessings from the sky above,p> <p class="poetry">blessings from the deep that lies below,p> <p class="poetry">and blessings of the breasts and womb.<n id="4" />p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth &#8211; everything from humankind to animals,<n id="1" /> including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.&#8221;p>

For in seven days<n id="1" /> I will cause it to rain<n id="2" /> on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.&#8221;p>