Genesis 8:1-14

1But 1God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and 2God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2Also 3the fountains of the deep and the 4floodgates of the sky were closed, and 5the rain from the sky was restrained; 3and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end 6of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. 4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, 7the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. 5The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the 8window of the ark which he had made; 7and he sent out a raven, and it 9flew here and there until the water was dried up 10from the earth. 8Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; 9but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the 11surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself. 10So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11The dove came to him toward 12evening, and behold, in her 13beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. 12Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out 14the dove; but she did not return to him again.

13Now it came about in the 15six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up 16from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the 17surface of the ground was dried up. 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.