Genesis 8:1-9 ▼

1 And God remembered Noah, and all the wild animals, and all the tame animals, and all the flying creatures, and all the crawling creatures that were with him in the vessel; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to recede.

2 And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly.

4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the vessel came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5 The waters receded continually to the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the vessel which he had made,

7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8 Then he sent forth a dove from it, to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground,

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the vessel; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the vessel.