Genesis 8:6-12

New American Standard Bible

⁶ Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the ^(A)window of the ark which he had made; ⁷ and he sent out a raven, and it ^[a]flew here and there until the water was dried up ^[b]from the earth. ⁸ Then he sent out a ^[c]dove, to see if the water was low on the ^[d]surface of the land; ⁹ but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the ^[e]surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself. ¹⁰ So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came to him in ^[f]the evening, and behold, in its ^[g]beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. ¹² Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out ^(B)the dove; but it did not return to him again.