. And the wells and cataracts were closed, and the
rains were prohibited, and forbidden to rain no more. The seventh month,
the twenty-seventh day of the month, the ark rested on the hills of
Armenia. The tenth month, of the first day of the month, the tops of the
hills appeared first. After these forty days after the lessing of the
waters, Noah opened the window and desired sore to have tidings of
ceasing of the flood. And sent out a raven for to have tidings, and when
he was gone he returned no more again, for peradventure she found some
dead carrion of a beast swimming on the water, and lighted thereon to
feed her and was left there. After this he sent out a dove which flew
out, and when she could find no place to rest ne set her foot on, she
returned unto Noah and he took her in. Yet then were not the tops of
the hills bare. And seven days after he sent her out again, which at
even returned, bearing a branch of an olive tree, burgeoning, in her
mouth. And after other seven days he sent her again, which came no more
again.

Then in the year of Noah six hundred and one, the first day of the
month, Noah opened the covering of the ark and saw that the earth was
dry, but he durst not go out, but abode the commandment of our Lord. The
second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month, our Lord said to
Noah: Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of
thy sons. He commanded them to go conjointly out which disjointly
entered, and let go out with them all the beasts and fowls living, and
all the reptiles, every each after his kind and gender, to whom our Lord
said: Grow ye and multiply upon the earth. Then Noah issued out and his
wife, and his sons with their wives, and all the beasts, the same day a
year after they entered in, every one after his gender. Noah then
edified an altar to our Lord and took of all the beasts that were clean
and offered sacrifice unto our Lord; and our Lord smelled the sweetness
of the sacrifice and said to Noah: From henceforth I shall not curse the
earth for man, for he is prone and ready to fall from the beginning of
his youth. I shall no more destroy man by such vengeance. And then our
Lord blessed them and said: Grow ye and multiply the earth and be ye
lords of all the beasts of the earth, of the fowls of the air, and of
the fishes. I have given all things to you, but eat no flesh with the
blood. I command you to slay no man, nor to shed no man's blood. I have
made man aft