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1 However, God remembered Noah as well as all the life and the animals that were with him in the boat. So God sent a wind over the earth, and the floodwaters receded.

2 Earth’s water sources dammed up, and the rain clouds in the sky dried up, as the period for rainfall from the sky drew to a close.

3 The floodwaters steadily receded from the ground and had ceased from rising after the 150 days.

4 The boat came ashore on the Ararat mountain range on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

5 And so the floodwaters continued to recede until the first day of the tenth month. It was then that the tops of mountains appeared.

6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the door of the boat that he had built.

7 He then let a crow free, but it returned after leaving, until the waters had receded more off of the earth’s surface.1

8 Afterwards, he let a dove free, to see if the water had further receded off of the earth’s surface.

9 But the dove didn’t find any resting spot for itself, so it returned to him (Noah) in the boat, because much water was still covering the earth’s surface. So Noah took the dove in his hand and brought it into the boat.

10 Another seven days passed, and again he sent the dove out of the boat.

11 The dove returned to him at evening, and it held a plucked olive leaf in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters had truly receded from the earth’s surface.

12 Yet another seven days went by, and he again sent the dove out, and this time it did not return.

13 So on the first day of the first month when he was 601 years old, the floodwaters were abated from the earth’s surface. Noah took off the ark’s covering; he looked and saw the dry, bare ground.

14 On the seventeenth day of the second month, the land was thoroughly dry.

15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 “You, your wife, your sons and their wives are to leave the boat.

17 Bring out all the creatures that are with you. All the types should come out: all birds, all animals and all the reptiles that crawl on the ground. They should spread out over the dry land, and be fruitful and reproduce.”

18 And so Noah, his wife, his sons, and their wives all left.

19 Along with them, all animals, all reptiles, all birds, all creatures that crawl on the ground, each by its species, left from the boat.

20 Then Noah built an altar to worship the Lord. He took sacrifices from all types of ritually pure animals and from all types of ritually pure birds, and he offered them as whole burnt offerings on the altar.

21 God was greatly pleased with the sacrifice. He then said to Himself, “I will not curse the earth again because of mankind, just because every desire they have from their youth is evil. I will never again strike all life which I have created.

22 As long as earth exists, sowing and reaping seasons, cold and hot seasons: summer and winter, and day and night will never cease from occurring.”

1. v. 7: The word for “crow” (orev in Hebrew) can also mean a raven.