12. And he waited seven more days, and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him.
13. And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up.
14. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15. And God spoke to Noah, saying:
16. “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17. Bring out with you all the living things which are with you, from all the living creatures—birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18. So Noah went out, with his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.
19. Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, and everything that moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark.
20. And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21. And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself, “Never again will I curse the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy all life as I have done.
22. As long as the earth endures, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.