Genesis 8:1-14

1Then God thought of Noah, and all the wild animals and the farm animals that were with him in the ship. He caused a wind to blow over the earth. As a result, the water began to go down.

2Streams of water stopped coming up from below the earth. Rain stopped coming down from the sky.

3The deep water continued to go down for 150 days.

4On the 17th day of the seventh month, the ship stopped on the ground. It was sitting on the top of Ararat mountains.

5The water continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared above the water.

6After 40 more days, Noah opened a window in the ship.

7He sent a raven to fly away. The raven flew away from the ship and then it returned. It continued to do this until the earth was dry.

8Then Noah sent out a dove. He wanted to see if the water had gone away from the top of the ground.

9But the dove could not find anywhere to stand. Water still covered all the ground. So it returned to Noah in the ship. Noah put out his hand and took the dove back into the ship.

10He waited for seven days. Then he sent the dove out of the ship again.

11The dove returned to Noah in the evening. It carried a fresh leaf from an olive tree in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the water had gone down.

12He waited for seven more days. Then he sent the dove out again. This time, it did not return to Noah.

13Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the first month, the water that had covered the earth was now gone. The ground had become dry. Noah made a hole in the roof of the ship and he looked around. He saw that the top of the ground was dry.

14By the 27th day of the second month, the earth had become completely dry.