12. He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
13. In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14. And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah and said,
16. “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17. Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”