Photo: Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass

Noah looks out the window as the animals disembark on dry land. "Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the 27th day of the second month the earth was completely dry. Then God said to Noah, 'Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you.... So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds - everything that moves on the earth - came out of the ark, one kind after another" (Genesis 8:14-19). Detail of the Noah Window, located at the west end of the north aisle. Like most of the windows in Chartres Cathedral, it dates from the early 13th century.