¹¹ And the dove came to him toward ^[a]evening, and behold, in its ^[b]beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. ¹² Then he waited yet another seven days and sent out ^(A)the dove; but it did not return to him again.

¹³ Now it happened in the ^(B)six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up ^[c]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the ^[d]surface of the ground was dried up.