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GenesisChapter 8

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But God remembered Noah and every living creature and all the animals that were with him in the ark. God sent a wind sweeping over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain from the sky was held back.
The waters steadily receded from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days they had gone down.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The waters kept receding until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
and sent out a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Then he sent out a dove to see whether the waters had gone down from the surface of the ground.
But the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to him in the ark, for water still covered the whole earth. So he reached out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back to himself in the ark.
He waited seven more days and again sent the dove out from the ark.
Toward evening the dove came back to him, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.
He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked out, and the surface of the ground was dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Then God said to Noah,
"Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Bring out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—birds, animals, and every creature that moves along the ground—so they may teem on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.
So Noah came out, together with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and taking some of every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from his youth. Never again will I strike down every living thing as I have done.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
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