The waters slowly go down. Noah sends out a raven and then a dove, which returns with an olive leaf. Noah leaves the ark and offers a sacrifice, and God promises that seedtime and harvest will not cease.
1 And God remembered Noah , and every living thing , and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth , and the waters asswaged ;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped , and the rain from heaven was restrained ;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated .
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month , on the seventeenth day of the month , upon the mountains of Ararat .
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the first day of the month , were the tops of the mountains seen .
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made :
7 And he sent forth a raven , which went forth to and fro , until the waters were dried up from off the earth .
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground ;
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot , and she returned unto him into the ark , for the waters were on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth his hand , and took her , and pulled her in unto him into the ark .
10 And he stayed yet other seven days ; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ;
11 And the dove came in to him in the evening ; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off : so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth .
12 And he stayed yet other seven days ; and sent forth the dove ; which returned not again unto him any more .
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year , in the first month, the first day of the month , the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark , and looked , and, behold, the face of the ground was dry .
14 And in the second month , on the seven and twentieth day of the month , was the earth dried .
15 And God spake unto Noah , saying ,
16 Go forth of the ark , thou, and thy wife , and thy sons , and thy sons ' wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh , both of fowl , and of cattle , and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that they may breed abundantly in the earth , and be fruitful , and multiply upon the earth .
18 And Noah went forth , and his sons , and his wife , and his sons ' wives with him:
19 Every beast , every creeping thing , and every fowl , and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth , after their kinds , went forth out of the ark .
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast , and of every clean fowl , and offered burnt offerings on the altar .
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour ; and the LORD said in his heart , I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living , as I have done .
22 While the earth remaineth , seedtime and harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night shall not cease .