12. Seven days later he sent the dove out again. But this time it did not come back.
13. Noah was now 601 years old. It was the first day of the first month of that year. The water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.
14. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was completely dry.
15. Then God said to Noah,
16. “You and your wife, your sons and their wives should go out of the boat.
17. Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones and let them grow in number.”
18. So Noah went out with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives.