Bereishis (Book 1: Genesis)
Noach


Chapter 08
(To Rashi Commentary)

Verse 1: El-him remembered Noach, and all the beasts and all the animals that were with him in the ark. El-him caused a wind to blow over the earth and the water subsided.

Verse 2: The wellsprings of the deep were closed, and [so were] the windows of the heavens, and the downpour from the heavens was withheld.

Verse 3: The water receded from the earth continually, and the waters diminished at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

Verse 4: The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Verse 5: The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month. In the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the mountaintops became visible.

Verse 6: At the end of forty days, Noach opened the window of the ark which he had made.

Verse 7: He sent out the raven, and it went out, going to and fro until the water on the land dried up.

Verse 8: He [then] sent the dove to see if the water had subsided from the surface of the ground.

Verse 9: The dove found no [place to] rest her foot. She returned to him into the ark, for the water was upon the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand and took her and brought her to him, into the ark.

Verse 10: He waited another seven days, and once again sent the dove out of the ark.

Verse 11: The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her mouth was a torn off olive leaf. Noach knew then that the water had subsided from the earth.

Verse 12: He waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove; it did not return to him again.

Verse 13: It was in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the water on earth [began] to dry. Noach removed the covering of the ark. He looked and behold the surface of the ground had dried.

Verse 14: In the second month, on the twenty seventh day of the month, the earth was [completely] dry.

Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)

Verse 15: El-him spoke to Noach, saying,

Verse 16: "Depart from the ark, yourself and your wife, your sons, and your son's wives with you.

Verse 17: Every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, [including] birds, animals, every creeping creature that creeps on the earth, let them depart with you. Let them spread over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

Verse 18: Noach departed [from the ark together with] his sons, his wife and son's wives.

Verse 19: Every living thing, every creeping creature, every bird, everything that creeps on the earth, departed from the ark according to their families.

Verse 20: Noach built an altar to Ad-noy, and took of every [ritually] clean animal and of every [ritually] clean bird, and brought up burnt-offerings on the altar.

Verse 21: Ad-noy smelled the pleasing fragrance, and Ad-noy said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the inclination of man's heart is evil from [the time of] his youth. I will never again smite every living thing as I have done.

Verse 22: So long as the earth exists, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never be suspended."


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