The Story of Noah and the Flood

Genesis 8:1–14 WEB

¹God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. ²The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. ³The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. ⁴The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. ⁵The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. ⁶At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, ⁷and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. ⁸He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, ⁹but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. ¹⁰He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. ¹¹The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. ¹²He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more. ¹³In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. ¹⁴In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.