God caused the floodwaters to recede, and after Noah confirmed the earth's dryness through sending birds, he and his family left the ark, repopulated the earth, and received God's promise to never destroy all living creatures again, as long as the earth endures.

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1 God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock that were with him in the ark, and He sent a wind over the earth, causing the waters to recede. 2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens ceased. 3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days, the waters had diminished significantly.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days had passed, Noah opened the window he had constructed in the ark. 7 He sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the waters on the earth had dried up. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set its foot and returned to him in the ark, for the waters still covered the surface of the earth. So, Noah reached out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

10 He waited another seven days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 The dove returned to him in the evening, with a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak. Thus, Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12 He waited another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return to him again.

13 In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters had dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth had become completely dry.

15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives. 17 Bring out every living creature that is with you—birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may swarm upon the earth, multiply, and fill the earth." 18 So, Noah came out, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. 19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth came out of the ark, grouped by their families.

20 Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the intentions of the human heart are evil from youth. Nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. 22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease."

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