¶ And God remembered¹ Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle² that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind³ to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

The fountains⁴ also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain⁵ from heaven was restrained;

And the waters returned from off the earth continually⁶: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

¶ And the ark⁷ rested in the seventh month⁸, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat⁹.

And the waters decreased continually¹⁰ until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window¹¹ of the ark which he had made:

And he sent forth a raven¹², which went forth to and fro¹³, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Also he sent forth a dove¹⁴ from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

But the dove found¹⁵ no rest for the sole of her foot, and she¹⁶ 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 her¹⁷ in unto him into the ark.

¶ And he stayed¹⁸ yet other seven¹⁹ days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive²⁰ leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

And he²¹ stayed yet other seven²² days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

¶ And it came to pass in the six²³ 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.

²⁴And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying,

²⁵Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Bring²⁶ 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 breed²⁷ abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

²⁸And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds²⁹, went forth out of the ark.

¶ And Noah builded³⁰ an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast³¹, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt³² offerings on the altar.

And the LORD smelled³³ a sweet savour³⁴; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for³⁵ man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither³⁶ will I again smite any more every thing living, as I³⁷ have done.

While the earth remaineth³⁸, seedtime³⁹ and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day⁴⁰ and night shall not cease.