1 God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.
2 God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.
3 For 150 days the water slowly went down.
4 Then on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year, the boat came to rest somewhere in the Ararat mountains.
5 The water kept going down, and the mountain tops could be seen on the first day of the tenth month.
6-7 Forty days later Noah opened a window to send out a raven, but it kept flying around until the water had dried up.
8 Noah wanted to find out if the water had gone down, so he sent out a dove.