KJV King James Version
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.
And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
13 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.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
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