10. After seven days Noah again sent out the dove from the boat.
11. And that evening it came back to him with a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the ground was almost dry.
12. Seven days later he sent the dove out again. But this time it did not come back.
13. Noah was now 601 years old. It was the first day of the first month of that year. The water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.
14. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was completely dry.
15. Then God said to Noah,
16. “You and your wife, your sons and their wives should go out of the boat.