3 The water receded steadily from the earth, and after the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
4 The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The water continually decreased until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 Then at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
7 and he sent forth a raven, which went to and fro until the waters were dried up on the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the surface of all the earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.