Genesis 8:1-9 ▼

1 And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded.

2 Also the fountains of the deep [subterranean waters] and the windows of the heavens were closed, the [pouring] rain from the sky was restrained,

3 and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Turkey].

5 The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

7 and he sent out a raven, which flew here and there until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the water level had fallen below the surface of the land.

9 But the dove found no place on which to rest the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [still] on the face of the entire earth. So he reached out his hand and took the dove, and brought her into the ark.