Genesis 8:1-14

1God remembered Noah and all the wild and domestic animals with him in the ship. So God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to go down.

2The deep springs and the sky had been shut, and the rain had stopped pouring.

3The water began to recede from the land. At the end of 150 days the water had decreased.

4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship came to rest in the mountains of Ararat.

5The water kept decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

6After 40 more days Noah opened the window he had made in the ship

7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water on the land had dried up.

8Next, he sent out a dove to see if the water was gone from the surface of the ground.

9The dove couldn’t find a place to land because the water was still all over the earth. So it came back to Noah in the ship. He reached out and brought the dove back into the ship.

10He waited seven more days and again sent the dove out of the ship.

11The dove came to him in the evening, and in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the water was gone from the earth.

12He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but it never came back to him.

13By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water on the land had dried up. Noah opened the top of the ship, looked out, and saw the surface of the ground.

14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was dry.