5. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6. After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
7. and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8. Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,
9. but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.
10. So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.
11. When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.