3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end Gen. 7:24of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
God’s Covenant with Creation
20 Then Noah built an Gen. 12:7; Ex. 29:18, 25altar to the Lord, and took of Gen. 7:2; Lev. 11every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered Gen. 22:2; Ex. 10:25burnt offerings on the altar.