Then God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark, and God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters subsided.
The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed and the rain from the heavens was held back.
The waters returned from off the earth, advancing and returning. At the end of 150 days the waters began to recede.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
And at the end of 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made
and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Then he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground;
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand and took her and brought her to him into the ark.
So he waited another seven days and sent the dove out of the ark again.
The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had decreased on the earth.
Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him any more.
And in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters began to dry up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground had begun to dry up.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was completely dry.
Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—including birds, livestock and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may increase abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
So Noah went out with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
God's Covenant with Noah
Noah built an altar to Yahweh and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma, and Yahweh said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, because the imagination of people’s hearts is evil from their youth, nor will I ever again strike down every living thing as I have done.
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”