7. and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water on the land had dried up.
8. Next, he sent out a dove to see if the water was gone from the surface of the ground.
9. The dove couldn’t find a place to land because the water was still all over the earth. So it came back to Noah in the ship. He reached out and brought the dove back into the ship.
10. He waited seven more days and again sent the dove out of the ship.
11. The dove came to him in the evening, and in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the water was gone from the earth.
12. He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but it never came back to him.
13. By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water on the land had dried up. Noah opened the top of the ship, looked out, and saw the surface of the ground.