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6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
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and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;
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Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 but the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him.
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But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark;
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 and the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
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When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12 Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any more.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying.
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By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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