¹¹ And the dove came to him in ^[a]the evening, and behold, in its ^[b]beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. ¹² Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out ^(A)the dove; but it did not return to him again.

¹³ Now it came about in the ^(B)six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up ^[c]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the ^[d]surface of the ground had dried up.