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Genesis 8:12
He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
Genesis 8:12 · World English Bible
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Genesis 8:12 in other translations
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
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In context
9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He 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.
15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
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