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 ¹ And God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

 ² The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were also closed, the rain from the sky was stopped,

 ³ And the waters continually receded from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated.

 ⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

 ⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month; on the first day of the month the tops of the mountains were seen.

 ⁶ And it came to pass at the end of another forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

 ⁷ And he sent out a raven, and it went back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.

 ⁸ Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

 ⁹ But the dove found no place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the surface of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and pulled her to him into the ark.

 ¹⁰ And he waited another seven days, and again he sent the dove out of the ark.

 ¹¹ And the dove came to him in the evening, and in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

 ¹² Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove, but she did not returned to him any more.

 ¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and, behold, the surface of the ground was dry.

 ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty seven day of the month, the was earth completely dry.

 ¹⁵ And God spoke to Noah, saying,

 ¹⁶ "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

 ¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, both of birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."

 ¹⁸ And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

 ¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird — whatever moves upon the earth — according to their kinds, went out of the ark.

 ²⁰ And Noah built an altar to the LORD and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

 ²¹ And the LORD smelled a sweet savor, and the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.¹

 ²² While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."