Genesis 8

When the waters had swelled upon earth for a hundred and fifty days, God then paid mind
And remembered both Noah and all living things with Noah on the ark at that time.
God then caused a great wind to blow over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Fountains of the deep and the sky’s floodgates were closed, and no more rain did the sky provide.
So the waters receded continually, and when one hundred fifty days passed,
All the waters abated. The ark came to rest atop Ararat’s mountains at last.
On the seventh month, seventeenth day, this occurred. Waters kept sinking from where they’d been,
‘Til the tenth month. Upon the first day of which, tops of the mountains could finally be seen.

After forty days, Noah threw open the window of the ark he’d made, and sent out
A black raven, which went to and fro, until waters dried up from the earth’s whereabouts.
Then he sent out a dove, to see whether the waters had dried from the face of the soil.
But the dove could find no resting place for her foot, and so returned to him, being loyal.
She returned to the ark, because water still covered the earth’s face, not fully abated.
Noah put out his hand, taking her back into the ark with him. And then Noah waited
Seven days more, and sent out the dove once again from the ark, so dry land it could seek.
The dove then returned late in the evening, and there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak!
By this, Noah knew that all the waters had decreased on earth. Then he waited once more
Seven days, and sent out the dove, but she did not return to him like times gone before.

So it was, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, and on that month’s first day,
All the waters began to dry up from the earth. Noah took the ark’s covering away
And he saw that the face of the soil was firm here, much drying ground did he espy.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day, the earth was once again finally dry.

God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, with your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives.
All things living with you, all flesh– birds, animals, things that creep, and things that swarm in hives,
Have them go out with you, so they can swarm on earth, and on earth be fertile and increase.”
And so Noah went out, with his sons, wife, and sons’ wives, and all living things were released.
All the birds, creepy-crawlies, all things that move on the earth, went out of the ark by family.
Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took from all clean beasts and birds to offer humbly.
Noah offered them up on the altar. God smelled the sweet odor, and said in his heart,
“I will never again curse the soil for man, though his heart form evil from the start.
I will never again destroy all living things, as I’ve done; So long as earth persists,
Sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night no more shall desist.”