Genesis Chapter 8
1 God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters subsided.
2 Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of Heaven were stopped, and rain from Heaven was restrained.
3 The waters returned from off the earth continually. After the end of the 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters decreased continually until the tenth month. And the tops of the mountains were seen in the tenth month on the first day of the month.
6 At the end of 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7 He sent forth a raven that went to and fro always returning until the waters were dried from the earth.
8 He also sent forth a dove to see if the waters had gone down on the earth.
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her back in to him in the ark.
10 He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 The dove came back in to him in the evening and in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.
12 He waited yet another seven days and sent forth the dove and she did not return again to him any more.
13 In the 601st year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and, behold, the face of the earth was dried.
14 In the second month, on the 27th day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 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, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
18 So Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went out with him.
19 Every animal, every fowl, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth after their families, went forth out of the ark.
20 Noah built an altar to the Lord, and he took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 The Lord smelled a sweet odor and the Lord said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will not again strike down every living thing as I have done.
22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.