'And 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;
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And the waters returned from off the earth continually:
and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the
waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the
mountains of Ararat. And 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.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he
sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until
the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent
forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated
from off the face of the ground; But 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. And he stayed
yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove
out of the ark; And 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. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent
forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any