At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down. And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark and sent out a raven and it kept flying back and forth.
Noah also sent out a dove to see if the waters had dried up of the ground. But the dove could not find a place to rest , so it returned back to the ark, so Noah waited seven days and sent the dove out again.
When the dove returned to him that evening their was a fresh olive leaf in it beak. So Noah knew the water had receded and he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again and it never returned.
On the first day of the first month of the six hundredth year of Noah's life the water had dried off of the face of the earth. Then Noah took the covering off of the ark and saw the ground was dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
God spoke to Noah and told him to go out of the ark and take all your family with you and all the animals with you so they can multiply and increase in numbers upon the face of the earth.
Noah did what God ask and then Noah built an alter for the lord, and took some of the clean animals and clean birds to the altar and made a burnt offering for God.
God smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart that he would never again curse the ground because of man. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
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