1Then God remembered Noah, and all the living things and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2The springs of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
3And the waters receded from upon the earth, going and returning; and the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
4And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
5And the waters kept going and diminishing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6And it happened, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
7and he sent out the raven; and it went out, going out and returning, until the waters had dried up from upon the earth.
8Then he sent out the dove from him, to see whether the waters had lessened from upon the face of the ground.
9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him, to the ark, for water was over the face of all the earth. And he put out his hand, took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.
10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11And the dove came to him at evening time, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her beak; so Noah knew that the waters had lessened from upon the earth.
12And he waited yet another seven days, and he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.
13And it happened, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, 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 from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17Every living thing that is with you, of all flesh—among the birds and among the livestock and among every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—bring out with you, that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”
18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19Every living thing, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—went out of the ark by their families.
20Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from every clean animal and from every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21And Yahweh smelled the soothing aroma, and Yahweh said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from its youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living thing as I have done.
22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
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