1. God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2. The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.
3. Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished
4. that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5. The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
6. At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made,
7. and he released a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth.
8. Then he released a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.
9. But the dove could find no place to perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water over all the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark.