Genesis 8:8
“Also hee sent foorth a doue from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.”
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Genesis 8:8 Context
6¶ And it came to passe at the end of forty dayes, that Noah opened the window of the Arke which he had made. 7And he sent forth a Rauen, which went foorth to and fro, vntill the waters were dried vp from off the earth. 8Also hee sent foorth a doue from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 9But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put foorth his hand, and tooke her, and pulled her in vnto him, into the Arke. 10And hee stayed yet other seuen dayes; and againe hee sent foorth the doue out of the Arke.
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Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
- King James Version
Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;
- New American Standard Version (1995)