3 The water began to recede from the land. At the end of 150 days the water had decreased.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship came to rest in the mountains of Ararat.
5 The water kept decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 After 40 more days Noah opened the window he had made in the ship
7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water on the land had dried up.
8 Next, he sent out a dove to see if the water was gone from the surface of the ground.
9 The dove couldn’t find a place to land because the water was still all over the earth. So it came back to Noah in the ship. He reached out and brought the dove back into the ship.