In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed, the surface of the ground was dry.
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11The 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 receded from the earth. 12He waited seven more days and sent out the dove, and this time it did not return to him again. 13In the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed, the surface of the ground was dry. 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was completely dry. 15Then God said to Noah,
