The Ark Rests on Ararat
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. Gen 30:22Gen 19:29Psa 136:23Exo 2:241Sa 1:19Psa 106:4Amo 8:7Exo 14:21 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. Gen 7:11Mat 8:26-27Pro 8:28Job 37:11-13Job 38:37Jon 2:3Mat 8:9 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. Gen 7:24Gen 7:11
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 2Ki 19:37Isa 37:38Jer 51:27Gen 7:17-19 And 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. Gen 7:11
Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark Gen 6:16Dan 6:10 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. 1Ki 17:41Ki 17:6Job 38:41Psa 147:9Lev 11:15
Then Noah sent out 1a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. Sng 2:14Gen 8:10-12Mat 10:16Sng 1:15Sng 2:11-12 But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark. Mat 11:28Psa 116:7Deu 28:65Jhn 16:33Isa 60:8Ezk 7:16
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. Gen 7:4Gen 7:10Gen 8:12Isa 26:8Isa 8:17Psa 40:1Rom 8:25 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. Neh 8:15Rom 10:15Zec 4:12-14
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him. Gen 8:10Isa 25:9Isa 26:8Isa 30:18Gen 2:2-3Isa 8:17Jas 5:7-8Psa 130:5-6
Exiting the Ark
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. Gen 7:11 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry. Gen 7:13-14Gen 7:11
Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. Gen 7:13Psa 121:8Zec 9:11Act 16:37-39Dan 9:25-26Gen 7:1Gen 7:7Jos 3:17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.” Gen 1:22Gen 9:1Jer 31:27-28Psa 107:38Gen 1:28Gen 7:14-15Gen 9:7Psa 144:13-14
So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. Psa 121:8 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
Noah Builds an Altar
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. Heb 13:15-16Rom 12:1Gen 22:9Gen 12:7-81Pe 2:9Lev 11:1-471Pe 2:5Exo 10:25 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. 2Co 2:15Eph 5:2Gen 6:5Jer 17:9Isa 54:9-10Rom 3:23Ecc 7:20Ezk 20:41
As long as the earth endures, Jas 5:7Jer 5:24Psa 74:16-17Jer 31:35Sng 2:11-12Jer 33:20-26Exo 34:21Isa 54:8-9
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
shall never cease.”