Genesis 8

¹But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark . And God made a wind blow over the earth , and the waters subsided .

²The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed , the rain from the heavens was restrained ,

³and the waters receded from the earth continually . At the end of 150 days the waters had abated ,

⁴and in the seventh month , on the seventeenth day of the month , the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat .

⁵And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month ; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month , the tops of the mountains were seen .

⁶At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

⁷and sent forth a raven . It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth .

⁸Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground .

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

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

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

¹²Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove , and she did not return to him anymore .

¹³In the six hundred and first year , in the first month, the first day of the month , the waters were dried from off the earth . And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked , and behold , the face of the ground was dry .

¹⁴In the second month , on the twenty-seventh day of the month , the earth had dried out .

¹⁵Then God said to Noah ,

¹⁶Go out from the ark , you and your wife , and your sons and your sons ’ wives with you.

¹⁷Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh — birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth —that they may swarm on the earth , and be fruitful and multiply on the earth .

¹⁸So Noah went out , and his sons and his wife and his sons ’ wives with him.

¹⁹Every beast , every creeping thing , and every bird , everything that moves on the earth , went out by families from the ark .

²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar .

²¹And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma , the Lord said in his heart , I will never again curse the ground because of man , for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth . Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done .

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