Genesis 8:1-12 ▼

1 And 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.

2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

3 And the waters turned back from the earth, going and returning, and the waters decreased at the end of fifty and a hundred days.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seven and tenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

5 And 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.

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

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

8 And he sent forth the dove from himself to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

9 And 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.

10 And he waited yet another seven days, and he again sent forth the dove from the ark.

11 And 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.

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