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But God did not forget Noah {and his family} and all the animals, including all the livestock, that {were} with them in the boat, and he caused a wind to blow over {the water that was covering} the earth, so that the water {started to} go down. 2 {He also caused} the springs in the deep {ocean} to stop {gushing}, and {he caused} the water to stop pouring from the sky, so that it stopped raining. 3 Then the water steadily went down from {the surface of} the land, and after the 150 days {had passed,} the water had gone down 4 so {much} that on the seventeenth day of the seventh month {of the year}, the boat came to rest on {one of} the mountains in the Ararat mountain range. 5 Then the floodwaters continued to go down until on the first {day} of the tenth month {of the year}, the peaks of the {surrounding} mountains became visible {above the water}.6 After forty {more} days {had passed}, Noah opened a window in the boat that he had made, 7 and he released a raven, which kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up {more} from the land. 8 Meanwhile Noah {also} released a dove to find out if the water had gone down from the surface of the ground. 9 But water was {still} covering the entire earth, so the dove did not find anywhere to land and rest. Then it returned to Noah in the boat, and Noah reached out, caught it and brought it {back} into the boat. 10 Noah waited another seven days, then he released the dove from the boat again. 11 That evening the dove returned to him, and he saw that {it had} a fresh green olive {tree} leaf in its beak! That's how Noah realized that the water had gone down {further} from the land. 12 Then he waited seven more days and he released the dove {again}, but {this time} it did not come back to him again.
13 So it was, when {Noah was} 601 years old, on the first {day} of the first month {of the year}, the water had {almost} dried up from the land. Then Noah removed {part of} the roof of the boat and looked around, and he saw that the surface of the ground was {almost} dry. 14 Then by the twenty-seventh day of the second month {of the year}, the land had dried off.
15 Then God commanded Noah, 16 "Come out of the boat, together with your wife, your sons and your sons' wives. 17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you, all of them, including the birds, the livestock and every {other} animal that moves on land, so that they can live all over the earth, {yes,} so that they can have many young and increase {in numbers} {all} over the earth.” 18 So Noah came out {of the boat}, along with his wife and his sons and their wives. 19 Every living creature, {including} all the animals that crawl and all the birds, {and} everything {else} that lives on land {also} came out of the boat in groups of their own kind.
20 Then Noah made an altar {out of stones} {to offer sacrifices} to Yahweh, and he chose some of every {kind of} clean animal and every {kind of} clean bird, and {killed them and} burned {their bodies} on the altar as an offering {to Yahweh} {to worship him}. 21 Yahweh smelled the aroma {of the offerings} and was pleased, and he thought to himself, "Never again will I curse the ground because of mankind{'s sin}, {even} though the desires of their hearts {are} evil from the time they are children. And never again will I destroy every living creature the way I {just} did. 22 As long as the earth {still} exists, {each year} there will always be a season to plant seeds and a season to harvest {crops}, as well as cold weather and hot weather, summer and winter, and day and night.”