6. At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened a window of the ark which he had made
7. And sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.
8. Then he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.
9. But the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [yet] on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.
10. He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11. And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.
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.