Genesis 8:6
“And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:”
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.”
“And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;”
“And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.”
“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.”