And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded.

He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

And the waters receded from the earth {gradually}, and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.