Chapter VI

The dove returns with an olive branch in her beak. This was a token of peace and reconciliation. Joy reigns in the ark. The people therein laugh and look thereout. God permits Noah and his sons to leave the ark. Noah offers sacrifice to God. It is pleasing to Him that “all speeds or spoils.” God declares that He will never destroy the world for the sin of man. That summer and winter shall never cease. Nor night nor day, nor the new years. God blesses every beast. Each fowl takes its flight. Each fish goes to the flood. Each beast makes for the plain. Wild worms wriggle to their abodes in the earth. The fox goes to the woods. Harts to the heath, and hares to the gorse. Lions and leopards go to the lakes. Eagles and hawks to the high rocks. The four ‘frekes’ take the empire. Behold what woe God brought on mankind for their hateful deeds! Beware of the filth of the flesh. “One speck of a spot” will ruin us in the sight of God. The beryl is clean and sound,--it has no seam.