Genesis 8:1-9 ▼

1 And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

2 and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.

3 And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

4 And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

5 and the waters have been going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the heads of the mountains appeared.

6 And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,

7 and he sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.

8 And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

9 and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the Ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the Ark.