3 The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly. 8:3 Gn 7:244 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 8:4 2Kg 19:37; Is 37:38; Jr 51:27
11 When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down. 13 In the six hundred first year, 8:13 = of Noah’s life in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.