more. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first
year, in the first month, the first day of the month,
the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah
removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold,
the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month,
on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the
earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth
of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
sons wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living
thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and
his sons' wives with him: Every beast, every creeping
thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the
earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of
every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a
sweet savour; and the Lord said in His heart, I will
not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for
the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing living,
as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and
day and night shall not cease,'--GENESIS viii. 1-22.

The universal tradition of a deluge is most naturally accounted for
by admitting that there was a 'universal deluge.' But 'universal'