3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, 4 exactly five months from the time the flood began,8:4 Hebrew on the seventeenth day of the seventh month; see 7:11. the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began,8:13 Hebrew On the first day of the first month; see 7:11. the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.8:20 Hebrew every clean animal and every clean bird.