12. Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, but she did not return to him any more.
13. In the year 601 [of Noah's life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the land. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was drying.
14. And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was entirely dry.
15. And God spoke to Noah, saying,
16. Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you.
17. Bring forth every living thing that is with you of all flesh–birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground–that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
18. And Noah went forth, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him [after being in the ark one year and ten days].
19. Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird–and whatever moves on the land–went forth by families out of the ark.
20. And Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean [four-footed] animal and of every clean fowl or bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.