When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. ¹ 

The waters kept receding steadily ¹  from the earth, so that they ²  had gone down ³  by the end of the 150 days.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying ¹  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Then Noah ¹  sent out a dove ²  to see if the waters had receded ³  from the surface of the ground.

He said, “My lord, ¹  if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant. ² 

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife ¹  and said to the sons of Heth, ² 

Rebekah looked up 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. ¹  It was so. ² 

Look! You are driving me off the land ¹  today, and I must hide from your presence. ²  I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

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

When ¹  the dove returned to him in the evening, there was 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 ¹  toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other. ² 

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines ¹  and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac. ² 

So his father Isaac said to him, “Indeed, ¹  your home will be away from the richness ²  of the earth, and away from the dew of the sky above.

You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.” ¹ 

“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water ¹  the sheep.”

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.”

because of the God of your father, who will help you, ¹  because of the sovereign God, ²  who will bless you ³  with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb. ⁴ 

So the Lord said, “I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth – everything from humankind to animals, ¹  including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

For in seven days ¹  I will cause it to rain 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.”