The Flood Recedes

God remembered Noah,(A) as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind[a] to pass over the earth,(B) and the water began to subside. The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:1 Or spirit; Gn 1:2

But God remembered(A) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,(B) and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens(C) had been closed, and the rain(D) had stopped falling from the sky.

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