1And God remembered Noah , and every living thing , and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth , and the waters asswaged ; 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped , and the rain from heaven was restrained ; 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated . 4And the ark rested in the seventh month , on the seventeenth day of the month , upon the mountains of Ararat . 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month : in the tenth month , on the first day of the month , were the tops of the mountains seen .
Noah's First Actions
6And it came to pass at the end of forty days , that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made : 7And he sent forth a raven , which went forth to and fro , until the waters were dried up from off the earth . 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground ; 9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot , and she returned unto him into the ark , for the waters were on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth his hand , and took her , and pulled her in unto him into the ark . 10And he stayed yet other seven days ; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ; 11And the dove came in to him in the evening ; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off : so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth . 12And he stayed yet other seven days ; and sent forth the dove ; which returned not again unto him any more .
God's Covenant with Noah
13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year , 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 . 14And in the second month , on the seven and twentieth day of the month , was the earth dried . 15And God spake unto Noah , saying , 16Go forth of the ark , thou, and thy wife , and thy sons , and thy sons’ wives with thee. 17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh , both of fowl , and of cattle , and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that they may breed abundantly in the earth , and be fruitful , and multiply upon the earth .
Noah's Sacrifice and God's Promise
18And Noah went forth , and his sons , and his wife , and his sons’ wives with him: 19Every beast , every creeping thing , and every fowl , and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth , after their kinds , went forth out of the ark . 20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast , and of every clean fowl , and offered burnt offerings on the altar . 21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour ; and the LORD said in his heart , I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake ; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living , as I have done . 22While the earth remaineth , seedtime and harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night shall not cease .