81God remembered Noah, as well as all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. So God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were also closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3The waters kept receding from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased. 4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5The waters receded continuously until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6Then at the end of forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark. 7He sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground, 9but the dove found no place to rest its foot, and it returned to him in the ark, because there was water on the surface of the whole earth. Noah reached out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back to him in the ark. 10He waited another seven days. Then he sent the dove out of the ark again. 11The dove came back to him at evening, and there in its mouth was an olive leaf it had just plucked. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again. This time it did not return to him anymore.
13And so in the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked out. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15God spoke to Noah. He said, 16“Go out of the ark—you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 17Bring out with you every living thing of every sort that is with you, all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may swarm over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives along with him. 19Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever swarms on the earth went out of the ship, species by species.[] 20Noah built an altar to the Lord and took from every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the soil anymore because of man, for the thoughts he forms in his heart are evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done. 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”