1 Then God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the cattle with him in the ark; God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters sank.
2 The springs of the deep and the windows of the heavens were shut, and the rain from the heavens was held back.
3 The waters kept going back from the earth, little by little, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters kept going down until the tenth month; on the first of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark he had made,
7 and he sent out the raven, which kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried from the earth.
8 Then he sent the dove out from him to see whether the waters had gone down from the face of the ground.
9 The dove found no place to rest the sole of her foot, so she came back to him in the ark, because there was water over the face of all the earth. He reached out his hand, took her, and brought her in to himself, into the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and once again sent the dove out of the ark.
11 At evening the dove came to him, and there in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.
12 He waited seven days more and sent out the dove, and she came back to him no more.
13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the waters had dried from the earth. Noah took off the covering of the ark and looked out, and the surface of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was fully dry.
15 Then God said to Noah:
16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17 Every living thing that is with you, of all flesh—birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—bring out with you, so that they may swarm over the earth, be fruitful, and increase upon the earth."
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.
19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, all that moves on the earth, came out of the ark by their families.
20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and taking some of every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "Never again will I curse the ground on account of man, for the inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth; and never again will I strike every living thing as I have done.
22 For all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease."