1. God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded.
2. The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain.
3. The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased;
4. and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains.
5. The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.
6. After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7. He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up.
8. Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters on all of the fertile land had subsided,
9. but the dove found no place to set its foot. It returned to him in the ark since waters still covered the entire earth. Noah stretched out his hand, took it, and brought it back into the ark.
10. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out from the ark again.
11. The dove came back to him in the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters were subsiding from the earth.
12. He waited seven more days and sent out the dove, but it didn’t come back to him again.
13. In Noah’s six hundred first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the ark’s hatch and saw that the surface of the fertile land had dried up.