11. The dove came to him at evening, and surprisingly—a freshly plucked olive leaf was in its mouth. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the land.
12. After he waited seven more days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.
13. It was in his six-hundred-and first year—in the first month, on the first day of the month—that the waters had dried up from the land. Then Noah removed the cover of the ark and he looked, and behold, the surface of the ground had dried up.
14. By the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land was dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16. “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17. Every animal that is with you of all flesh, including the flying creatures, livestock and every crawling creature that crawls on the land, bring out with you, and let them swarm in the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the land.”
18. So Noah came out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19. Every animal—every crawling creature, every flying creature, everything that crawls upon the land—came out from the ark in their families.
20. Then Noah built an altar to Adonai and he took of every clean domestic animal and of every clean flying creature and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.