11. The dove came to him in the evening, and in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the water was gone from the earth.
12. He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but it never came back to him.
13. By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water on the land had dried up. Noah opened the top of the ship, looked out, and saw the surface of the ground.
14. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah,
16. “Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives.
17. Bring out every animal that’s with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth.”
18. So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19. Every animal, crawling creature, and bird—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ship, one kind after another.