4. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Armenia].
5. And the waters continued to diminish until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the high hills were seen.
6. At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened a window of the ark which he had made
7. And sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.
8. Then he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.
9. But the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [yet] on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.
10. He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.