H9001–/וַ–v

The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

וַתָּ֤נַח (וַ) va. “and”

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

וַֽיְהִ֕י (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּפְתַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”

and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

וַיְשַׁלַּ֖ח (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצֵ֤א (וַ) va “and”

He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,

וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח (וַ) va “and”

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

וַתָּ֤שָׁב (וַ) va. “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקָּחֶ֔הָ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

וַיָּ֣חֶל (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֛סֶף (וַ) va “and”

The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

וַתָּבֹ֨א (וַ) va. “and”וַיֵּ֣דַע (וַ) va “and”

He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

וַיִּיָּ֣חֶל (וַ) va “and”וַיְשַׁלַּח֙ (וַ) va “and”

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

וַֽ֠יְהִי (וַֽ֠) Va “and”וַיָּ֤סַר (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֕רְא (וַ) va “and”

God spoke to Noah, saying,

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר (וַ) va “and”

Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

וְשָֽׁרְצ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּפָר֥וּ (וּ) u. “and”וְרָב֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

וַיֵּ֖צֵא־ (וַ) va “and”

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

וַיִּ֥בֶן (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֞ח (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”

Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

וַיָּ֣רַח (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."

וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י (וַ) va. “and”

God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

וְהָֽיְתָה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

וְהָיָ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִרְאֲתָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

וְזָכַרְתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּרְאִיתִ֗יהָ (וּ) u. “and”

God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ (וַ) va “and”