1. But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and tame animals with him in the boat. God made a wind blow over the earth. And the water went down.
2. The underground springs stopped flowing. And the clouds in the sky stopped pouring down rain.
3-4. The water that covered the earth began to go down. After 150 days the water had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. This was on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
5. The water continued to go down. By the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains could be seen.
6. Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat.
7. He sent out a raven. It flew here and there until the water had dried up from the earth.
8. Then Noah sent out a dove. This was to find out if the water had dried up from the ground.
9. The dove could not find a place to land because water still covered the earth. So it came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and took the bird. And he brought it back into the boat.
10. After seven days Noah again sent out the dove from the boat.
11. And that evening it came back to him with a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the ground was almost dry.
12. Seven days later he sent the dove out again. But this time it did not come back.