10. He waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11. The dove came to him in the evening, and in her mouth there was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12. He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again, but it did not return to him again.
13. So in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw the surface of the ground was dry.
14. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16. “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18. So Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went out.
19. Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
20. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.