Genesis 8:13-19

13Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

14Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!

15Then God said to Noah,

16“Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.

17Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.”

18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.

19And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.