Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

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Then [Noah] sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to rest her foot and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters [were still] covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

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[Noah] waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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[And] Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove {again}, but this time she did not return to him.

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