God Causes the Flood to Go Away

7:24-8:19

24 Deep water continued to cover the entire world for 150 days.

8 But God never forgot Noah and his family and all the animals, both wild and tame, that were with them in the boat. So 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 out water, 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. 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 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 from the boat to find out if the water had gone down from the land. 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 seven more 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 is 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. So Noah took off part of the roof of the boat and looked around, and he saw that much of the land’s surface 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 animals that are with you, all of them, including the birds, tame animals, and every other animal that moves on land. Then they can live all over the earth; yes, they will have many young and increase in number all over the earth.” 18 So Noah came out of the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives. 19 All the animals, 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.