But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock
that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the
earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the
windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was
restrained, and the waters receded from the earth continually. At
the end of 150 days the waters had abated, and in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on
the mountains of Ararat. And the waters continued to abate until
the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month,
the tops of the mountains were seen.
At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that
he had made and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the
waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent forth a dove from
him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.
But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to
him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole
earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the
ark with him. He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark. And the dove came back to him in the
evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf.
So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. Then he
waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not
return to him anymore.
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first
day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And
Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the
face of the ground was dry. In the second month, on the twenty-
seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. Then God said to
Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and
your sons' wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing
that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth,
and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and
his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. Every beast,
every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the
earth, went out by families from the ark.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean
animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on
the altar. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD
said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of
man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I
have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and
heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
