And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: (8:6)

And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth (8:7)

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; (8:8)

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark (8:9)

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; (8:10)

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth (8:11)

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more (8:12)

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry (8:13)

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried (8:14)

And God spake unto Noah, saying, (8:15)

Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee (8:16)

Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth (8:17)

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: (8:18)

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark (8:19)

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar (8:20)

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done (8:21)

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease (8:22)

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