NET Bible
"Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground."
— Genesis 8:8, NET Bible
“Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;”
“And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; ”
“He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,”
“He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.”
“And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;”
“Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;”
The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.