The Ark Rests on Ararat

1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained. 3And the waters turned back from the earth, going and returning, and the waters decreased at the end of fifty and a hundred days.

4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seven and tenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month, and in the tenth month on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

6And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, 7and he sent forth the raven and it went out, going out and returning, until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8And he sent forth the dove from himself† to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. 9And the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark; for the waters were still on the face of all the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself in the ark.

10And he waited yet another seven days, and he again sent forth the dove from the ark. 11And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12And he waited yet another seven days and he sent forth the dove, and she did not continue to return to him again.

Exiting the Ark

13And it came to pass in the one and six hundredth year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and he looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

15And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16“Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and the wives of your sons with you. 17Every living thing that is with you—all flesh, the bird, and the livestock, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth—bring out with you, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. 19And every animal, every crawling thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, they went forth from the ark.

Noah Builds an Altar

20And Noah built an altar to YHWH. And he took from every clean animal and from every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in His heart, “I will not continue to curse anymore the ground on account of mankind, though the inclination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. I will not continue anymore to destroy every living thing, as I have done.

22Throughout all the days of the earth,

seedtime and harvest,

and cold and heat,

and summer and winter,

and day and night

shall not cease.”