OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Genesis 8:10

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He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

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Genesis 8:7–13

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and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

9

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

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He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

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 any more.

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.

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