Genesis 8

But God remembered Noah and all the living thing{s} and all the livestock that {were} with him in the ark, and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was stopped.

Then the waters receded steadily from the earth, and {at} the end of the 150 days the waters had decreased, \*

so that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters continued to decrease until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains could be seen. \*

And it happened {at} the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

and he sent out the raven, and it kept flying out and returning until the waters dried up from the earth. \*

Then he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the surface of the ground.

But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the waters {were} over the face of all of the earth. And he reached out his hand and took it and brought it to him into the ark. \*

Then he waited another seven days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

Then the dove returned to him at evening time, and behold, {there was} a freshly picked olive leaf in its mouth. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

Then he waited another seven days, and he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again. \*

So it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first {month}, on the first {day} of the month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was drying.

Then in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. \*

Then God said to Noah, saying,

“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and the wives of your sons with you.

Bring out with you every living thing that {is} with you, all flesh, including the birds and the livestock and every creeper creeping on the earth, so that they will abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply over the earth.” \*

Then Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.

Every living thing, every crawling thing and every bird, everything moving on the earth, went out of the ark by their families. \*

Then Noah built an altar to God, and he took from every clean animal and from every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

And God smelled the pleasant aroma, and God said in his heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of mankind, though the inclination of mankind’s hearts {is} evil from their youth. And never again will I strike every living {thing} as I have done. 22 While all of the days of the earth continue, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” \*