1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters went down.
2The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was held back.
3The waters kept draining away from the earth. After the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5The waters kept going down until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains could be seen.
6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7He sent out a raven, and it went back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8He also sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone down from the face of the ground.
9But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she came back to him in the ark, because the waters were over the face of the whole earth. Then he reached out his hand, took her, and brought her in to himself in the ark.
10He waited another seven days, and again he sent the dove out of the ark.
11The dove came back to him in the evening, and look, in her mouth was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.
12He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove. She did not come back to him again.
13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah took the covering off the ark and looked, and the face of the ground was dry.
14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15And God spoke to Noah, saying,
16"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you."
17"Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, all living creatures, both birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them breed freely on the earth, and be fruitful, and increase on the earth."
18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, each by its kind, went out of the ark.
20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21And the LORD smelled a sweet smell. The LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for what man's heart imagines is evil from his youth. I will not again strike down every living thing, as I have done."
22"While the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."