⁸ Then he sent out a dove^(A) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. ⁹ But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. ¹⁰ He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹ 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.^{(B) 12} He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

⁷ “‘Anyone who cannot afford^(A) a lamb^(B) is to bring two doves or two young pigeons^(C) to the Lord as a penalty for their sin—one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

¹¹ “‘If, however, they cannot afford^(A) two doves or two young pigeons,^(B) they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah^[a](C) of the finest flour^(D) for a sin offering. They must not put olive oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.