11. The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
12. He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.
13. In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15. God spoke to Noah, saying,
16. “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.