Verse 11
Genesis 8:11
New Living Translation
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This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תָּבֹ֨א אֵלָ֤י/ו הַ/יּוֹנָה֙ לְ/עֵ֣ת עֶ֔רֶב וְ/הִנֵּ֥ה עֲלֵה זַ֖יִת טָרָ֣ף בְּ/פִ֑י/הָ וַ/יֵּ֣דַע נֹ֔חַ כִּי קַ֥לּוּ הַ/מַּ֖יִם מֵ/עַ֥ל הָ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And the dove came to me in the evening, and behold, an olive leaf freshly plucked was in its mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.
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Chapter 8 Context
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But God (Elohim) remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sen...
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The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
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So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
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exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible...
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After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
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and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.
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He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.
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But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned...
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After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.
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This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah kne...
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He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.
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Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood...
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Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!
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Then God (Elohim) said to Noah,
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“Leave the boat, all of you — you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
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Release all the animals — the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the grou...
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So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.
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And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and bir...
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And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again cu...
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As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,...
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