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Genesis 8:11
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9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.
10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 “Go out of the ark, ayou and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.  
17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and abe fruitful and multiply on the earth.”  
18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

God’s Covenant with Creation

20 Then Noah built an aaltar to the Lord, and took of bevery clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered cburnt offerings on the altar.  
21 And the Lord smelled aa soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again bcurse the ground for man’s sake, although the cimagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; dnor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. 
22 “While the earth aremains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And bday and night
Shall not cease.” 
Verse Comparison: Genesis 8:11

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American Standard Version
and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Amplified® Bible
And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted {and} freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.

Contemporary English Version
It returned in the evening, holding in its beak a green leaf from an olive tree. Noah knew that the water was finally going down.

Darby English Version
And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.

Good News Bible
It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down.

King James Version
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

New American Standard Bible
The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.

New International Version
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.

New King James Version
Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak she displayed a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water had abated from the earth.

Revised Standard Version
and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.


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