¹And God remembered Noah and all the livestock and all the beasts that were with him in the ark, and God caused a spirit to pass over the earth, and the waters abated. ²And the founts of the deep were closed off, as were the floodgates of heaven, and the rain was held back from the heavens. ³And the water receded from the earth, and it kept receding, and the water diminished after one hundred and fifty days. ⁴Then the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵And the water kept on diminishing until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the summits of the mountains were seen. ⁶Then it came to pass after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, ⁷and he sent out a raven, and it kept going out and coming back again until the water dried up on the earth. ⁸And he sent out a dove to see if the water had ebbed away on the surface of the ground. ⁹But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of its foot, and it came back to him – to the ark – for there was water over the surface of the whole earth. And he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it in, into the ark. ¹⁰And he waited for another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, there was a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. So Noah knew that the water had ebbed away from the surface of the earth. ¹²And he waited for another seven days, and he sent out the dove, and it did not come back to him again. ¹³And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the water dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked around, and what he saw was that the surface of the ground had become dry. ¹⁴And in the second month on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth became dry. ¹⁵And God spoke to Noah and said, ¹⁶“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁷Bring out with you all the livestock which is with you, the specimens from all the kinds of flesh, on the birds and on the beasts and on all the reptiles which creep on the earth, so that they may teem on the earth, and be fruitful and increase on the earth.” ¹⁸So Noah came out, as did his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. ¹⁹All the livestock, all the reptiles and all the birds, everything that creeps on the earth, according to their families, came out of the ark. ²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and he took sacrificial victims from all the clean beasts and from all the clean birds, and he made burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And the Lord smelled the sweet fragrance, and the Lord said in his heart,

“I will not curse the ground again because of man,

For the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth on,

And I will not strike everything living again,

As I have done,

²²As long as all the days of the earth

– Seed time and harvest time,

And cold and hot,

And summer and winter,

And day and night –

Do not cease.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.21 ↔ James 4:5.