The Dove and the Olive Branch

Genesis 8:6-12

After forty days Noach opened the window of the ark which he had built;

and he sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water had gone from the surface of the ground.

But the dove found no place for her feet to rest, so she returned to him in the ark, because the water still covered the whole earth. He put out his hand, took her and brought her in to him in the ark.

He waited another seven days and again sent the dove out from the ark.

The dove came in to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf, so Noach knew that the water had cleared from the earth.

He waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she didn’t return to him any more.

The Dove and the Olive Branch

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