⁴ For in seven days ^(A)I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, ^(B)and every living thing^[a] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

⁸ Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.

¹³ In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.