8. Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
9. But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark.
10. And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11. And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth.
12. And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him.
13. Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry.
14. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dry.
15. Then God spoke to Noah, saying:
16. "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.