12. And he waited seven more days, and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him.
13. And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up.
14. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15. And God spoke to Noah, saying:
16. “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17. Bring out with you all the living things which are with you, from all the living creatures—birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18. So Noah went out, with his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.