Today's Scripture [1-17-13]

   And God remembered Noah, and every liv-
ing thing, and all the cattle that was with him
in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over
the earth, and the waters asswaged...
   And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred
and fifty days the waters were abated.
   And the ark rested in the seventh month, on
the seventeenth day of the month, upon the
mountains of Ararat.
   And the waters decreased continually until
the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, were the tops of the
mountains seen.
   And it came to pass at the end of forty days,
that Noah opened the window of the ark which
he had made:
   And he sent forth a raven, which went forth
to and fro, until the waters were dried up from
off the earth.
   Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if
the waters were abated from off the face of the
ground;
   But the dove found no rest for the sole of her
foot, and she returned unto him into the ark,
for the waters were on the face of the whole
earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her,
and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
   And he stayed yet other seven days; and
again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
   And the dove came in to him in the evening;
and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt
off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated
from off the earth.
   And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent
forth the dove; which returned not again unto
him any more.
   And it came to pass in the six hundredth and
first year, in the first month, the first day of the
month, the waters were dried up from off the
earth: and Noah removed the covering of the
ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the
ground was dry.

                  ~ Genesis 8:1, 3-13 KJV