Genesis 8

¹ But God remembered Noah and all the animals with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

² Now water stopped coming out of the ground, and it stopped raining.

³ The water level fell steadily. After that hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

⁴ and on July 17^th the giant box got stuck on the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ The water kept going down until October, and on October 1^st they could see the tops of the mountains.

⁶ After forty more days Noah opened a window he’d made in the giant box
⁷ and sent out a raven, and it kept flying around until all the water on land had dried up.
⁸ Then he sent out a dove to see if the water really was gone, and if it could find dry land.
⁹ But the dove couldn’t find anywhere to perch because there was still water everywhere; so it returned to Noah in the giant box. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back inside.
¹⁰ He waited another week and then sent the dove out again.
¹¹ When the dove came back in the evening, it had a fresh olive leaf in its beak! Then Noah knew the flood was over and the water was draining away.
¹² He waited another week and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn’t come back at all.
¹³ By New Year’s Day when Noah was six hundred and one, the flood water was completely gone. Noah took the top off the giant box and looked down to see the land drying all around.
¹⁴ By February 27, the earth was completely dry.
¹⁵ Then God said to Noah,
¹⁶ “Come out of the giant box, and bring your family.
¹⁷ Bring out all the animals too—the birds, the livestock, and all the rest—so they can bone and reproduce and fill the planet up again.”
¹⁸ So Noah and his family came out.
¹⁹ All the animals came out too, one after another.
²⁰ Then Noah built an altar, and he took some of the animals and birds he had spares of and killed them and burnt then on the altar as a sacrifice to God.
²¹ God smelled what Noah was cooking and said to himself: “I won’t ever curse the world because of humans again, even though they’re all evil little shits from childhood on up. And I won’t ever kill every living thing again either, like I did this time.

²² As long as the world is around: planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will keep on truckin’.”