Genesis 8:1-12 ▼

1 AND God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the animals and all the fowls that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters became calm;

2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

3 And the waters receded from the earth gradually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty clays the waters abated.

4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Kardo.

5 And the waters decreased gradually until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth 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 which he had made;

7 And he sent forth a raven which went to and fro, but did not return until the waters were dried up from the face of the earth.

8 Then he sent forth a dove from the ark, to see if the waters had abated from the face of the ground;

9 But the dove found no resting place for her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark with him.

10 And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11 And the dove came back to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from off the earth.

12 And he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; but the dove did not return again to him any more.