And all flesh that moved upon the earth expired: birds and cattle and animals and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth and all mankind.

Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

Thus He blotted out every living being that was upon the surface of the ground, from man to beast to creeping things to the birds of heaven; and they were blotted out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred fifty days.

And God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

And the waters receded steadily from upon the earth. So at the end of one hundred fifty days the waters began to diminish.

And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters diminished steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

And at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

And he sent out the raven; and it went out, going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

And he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground.

But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.

And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

And the dove came to him toward evening time, and there in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.

And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.

And in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that now the surface of the ground was dry.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

And God spoke to Noah, saying,

Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you;