1. God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.
2. The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,
3. and the water gradually went down for 150 days.
4. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.
5. The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
6. After forty days Noah opened a window
7. and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone.
8. Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down,
9. but since the water still covered all the land, the dove did not find a place to alight. It flew back to the boat, and Noah reached out and took it in.
10. He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again.
11. It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down.
12. Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.