¹God remembered Noah and every living creature and all the livestock that were with him in the ark, and God made a wind pass over the land, and the waters abated.

²The springs of the deep and the lattice windows of the skies were shut up, and the rain from the skies was held back.

³The waters turned back from the land, going and returning; and the waters decreased by the end of a hundred and fifty days.

⁴The ark settled in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵The waters kept going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

⁶It came about, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.

⁷He sent out the raven, and it kept going out and returning until the waters had dried up from the land.

⁸He sent out the dove from beside him, to see whether the waters had abated from the face of the ground.

⁹The dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for water was over the face of all the land; so he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

¹⁰He waited again another seven days, and once more sent out the dove from the ark.

¹¹The dove came to him at the time of evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf; and Noah knew that the waters had abated from the land.

¹²He waited again another seven days, and he sent out the dove; and she did not return to him again.

¹³It came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the land; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw: there, the face of the ground was dry.

¹⁴In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land was dry.

¹⁵God spoke to Noah, saying:

¹⁶Go out from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and the wives of your sons, with you.

¹⁷Bring out with you every living creature that is with you, of all flesh: among the birds, among the livestock, and among every creeping thing that creeps on the land; and let them swarm on the land, and be fruitful and multiply on the land.

¹⁸Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

¹⁹Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, all that crept on the land, went out by their families from the ark.

²⁰Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took some of every clean animal of the livestock and some of every clean bird, and brought up burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹Yahweh smelled the soothing odor, and Yahweh said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground on account of humankind, for the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

²²Still, through all the days of the land, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.