Genesis Chapter 8 - New International Version 1. But God
remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that
were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and
the waters receded. 2. Now the springs of the deep and the
floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had
stopped falling from the sky. 3. The water receded steadily from
the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water
had gone down, 4. and on the seventeenth day of the seventh
month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5. The
waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the
first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became
visible. 6. After forty days Noah opened the window he had made
in the ark 7. and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and
forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8. Then he
sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface
of the ground. 9. But the dove could find no place to set its
feet because there was water o