Genesis 8 · Parashat Noach

And God remembered Noaĥ, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged;

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped,

and the rain from heaven was restrained; and the waters receded from the earth continually: and after the end of a 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 Noaĥ opened the window of the ark which he had made:

and he sent forth the raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Also he sent forth the dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the face of the ground;

but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put out his hand, and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark.

And he waited yet another 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 plucked off: so Noaĥ knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

And he waited yet another seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to him any more.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noaĥ removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, was the earth dried.

And God spoke to Noaĥ, saying,

Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Bring out with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of birds, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

And Noaĥ went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

And Noaĥ built an altar to the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the impulse of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.