Genesis 8

1But God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

2The springs of the deep and the windows of the heavens were shut, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

3And the waters receded from upon the earth, going and returning, and the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

4And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.

7Then he sent out the raven, and it went out, going out and returning, until the waters had dried up from upon the earth.

8Then he sent out the dove from him to see whether the waters had subsided from the surface of the ground.

9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him, to the ark, because the waters were on the surface of all the earth. Then he stretched out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.

10Then he waited another seven days, and again sent out the dove from the ark.

11And the dove came to him at evening time, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.

12Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove, and it did not return to him again.

13And it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters had dried up from upon the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dry.

14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16Come out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, from all flesh—birds and livestock and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves on the earth—went out from the ark by their families.

20Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took some of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21And the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, and the LORD said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.”

22For as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.