5. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
7. and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8. Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground,
9. but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were still upon the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10. And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark,
11. and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12. And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.
13. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year of Noah, 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.
14. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15. And God spoke unto Noah, saying,
16. Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17. Bring forth with thee every animal that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of beasts and of every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18. And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him;