The water goes down
But God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the water started to go down. The springs of the deep and the windows of the sky were shut, and the rain stopped falling. The water went back off the land, steadily. By the end of a hundred and fifty days it had dropped, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The water kept going down until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains showed.
But God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the water started to go down.
The springs of the deep and the windows of the sky were shut, and the rain stopped falling.
The water went back off the land, steadily. By the end of a hundred and fifty days it had dropped,
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The water kept going down until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains showed.
The raven and the dove
Forty days later, Noah opened the window he'd made in the boat and sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried off the earth. Then he sent out a dove, to see whether the water had gone down off the surface of the ground. But the dove couldn't find anywhere to put her foot down, so she came back to him in the boat — there was still water over the whole surface of the earth. He put his hand out, took her, and brought her back in with him. He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again. She came back to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew the water had gone down off the earth. He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, and this time she didn't come back.
Forty days later, Noah opened the window he'd made in the boat
and sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried off the earth.
Then he sent out a dove, to see whether the water had gone down off the surface of the ground.
But the dove couldn't find anywhere to put her foot down, so she came back to him in the boat — there was still water over the whole surface of the earth. He put his hand out, took her, and brought her back in with him.
He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again.
She came back to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew the water had gone down off the earth.
He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, and this time she didn't come back.
Dry ground
In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the water had dried off the earth. Noah took the cover off the boat and looked, and the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. And God said to Noah, “Come out of the boat, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. Bring out every living thing that's with you — birds and animals and everything that moves along the ground — so they can breed on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on it.” So Noah came out, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. Every animal, everything that moves along the ground, every bird, everything that moves on the earth — out they came from the boat, family by family.
In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the water had dried off the earth. Noah took the cover off the boat and looked, and the surface of the ground was dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
And God said to Noah,
“Come out of the boat, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
Bring out every living thing that's with you — birds and animals and everything that moves along the ground — so they can breed on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on it.”
So Noah came out, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
Every animal, everything that moves along the ground, every bird, everything that moves on the earth — out they came from the boat, family by family.
Never again
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took some of every clean animal and every clean bird, and made burnt offerings on it. And the Lord smelled the good smell of it, and said in His heart, “I'll never curse the ground again because of people, even though what's in a person's heart is bad from childhood. And I'll never strike down every living thing again, the way I have. As long as the earth lasts — seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night — they'll never stop.”
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took some of every clean animal and every clean bird, and made burnt offerings on it.
And the Lord smelled the good smell of it, and said in His heart, “I'll never curse the ground again because of people, even though what's in a person's heart is bad from childhood. And I'll never strike down every living thing again, the way I have.
As long as the earth lasts — seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night — they'll never stop.”