9. but the dove found no place to set its foot. It returned to him in the ark since waters still covered the entire earth. Noah stretched out his hand, took it, and brought it back into the ark.
10. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out from the ark again.
11. The dove came back to him in the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters were subsiding from the earth.
12. He waited seven more days and sent out the dove, but it didn’t come back to him again.
13. In Noah’s six hundred first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the ark’s hatch and saw that the surface of the fertile land had dried up.
14. In the second month, on the seventeenth day, the earth was dry.
15. God spoke to Noah,