3And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
4And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
6Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,
7Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.
8And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;
9But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
