9 But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole land. He stretched out his hand and he took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
10 So he waited yet another seven days and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
11 The dove came to him at evening, and surprisingly—a freshly plucked olive leaf was in its mouth. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the land.
12 After he waited seven more days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.
13 It was in his six-hundred-and first year—in the first month, on the first day of the month—that the waters had dried up from the land. Then Noah removed the cover of the ark and he looked, and behold, the surface of the ground had dried up.
14 By the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land was dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,