1Then God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to recede.
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2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain stopped.
3The waters gradually receded over the land. After one hundred and fifty days, the waters had receded,
4and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
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6After forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark.
7Hoping that the land had already appeared, Noah released a raven, but it kept circling around.
8Then he released a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the earth.
9But the dove found no place to rest its feet because the waters still covered the entire surface of the earth, and so it returned to the ark, to Noah. He reached out, picked up the dove, and brought it back inside. of the ark.
10Noah waited another seven days and released the dove again.
11When he returned at dusk, the dove carried a new olive leaf in its beak. Noah then learned that the waters had receded from the earth.
12He waited another seven days and released the dove again, but this time it did not return.
13On the first day of the first month of the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, the waters on the earth dried up. Noah then removed the roof of the ark and saw that the surface of the earth was dry.
14On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the land was completely dry.
15Then God said to Noah:
16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.
17Also make all the animals that are with you come out: the birds, the large animals and the small ones that move close to the ground. Make them come out so that they may spread throughout the land, be fertile and multiply.”
18Then Noah came out of the ark with his wife and his sons and their wives,
19and with all the large animals and the small ones that move close to the ground and all the birds. Everything that moves on earth came out of the ark, one species after another.
20Then Noah built an altar dedicated to the Lord and, taking some clean animals and birds, he offered them as a burnt offering, burning them on the altar.
21The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma and said to himself: “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for his heart has been entirely inclined towards evil since childhood. And I will never again destroy all living beings as I did this time.
22“As long as the earth lasts,
planting and harvesting,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
