8:8 Then Noah 1 sent out a dove 2 to see if the waters had receded 3 from the surface of the ground. 8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered 4 the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah 5 in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, 6 and brought it back into the ark. 7 8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 8:11 When 8 the dove returned to him in the evening, there was 9 a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.