Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. New Living Translation He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. English Standard Version Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. Berean Study Bible Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. New American Standard Bible Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; King James Bible Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; Christian Standard Bible Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth's surface had gone down, Contemporary English Version Noah wanted to find out if the water had gone down, so he sent out a dove. Good News Translation Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down, Holman Christian Standard Bible Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth's surface had gone down, International Standard Version Later, he sent a dove out from the ark to see whether the water that covered the land's surface had completely receded, NET Bible Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. New Heart English Bible He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, GOD'S WORD® Translation Next, he sent out a dove to see if the water was gone from the surface of the ground. JPS Tanakh 1917 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. New American Standard 1977 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; Jubilee Bible 2000 Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground, King James 2000 Bible Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; American King James Version Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; American Standard Version And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; Brenton Septuagint Translation And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth. Douay-Rheims Bible He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth. Darby Bible Translation And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground. English Revised Version And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; Webster's Bible Translation Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; World English Bible He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, Young's Literal Translation And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground, Study Bible Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove…7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. 9But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because water still covered the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.… Cross References Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because water still covered the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark. Treasury of Scripture Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; a dove. Genesis 8:10-12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; … Song of Solomon 1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. Song of Solomon 2:11,12,14 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; … Lexicon Then [Noah] sent outוַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח (way·šal·laḥ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7971: To send away, for, out a dove הַיּוֹנָ֖ה (hay·yō·w·nāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 3123: A dove to see לִרְאוֹת֙ (lir·’ō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see if the waters הַמַּ֔יִם (ham·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen had receded הֲקַ֣לּוּ (hă·qal·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling from מֵעַ֖ל (mê·‘al) Preposition-m Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against the surface פְּנֵ֥י (pə·nê) Noun - common plural construct Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face of the ground. הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃ (hā·’ă·ḏā·māh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 127: Ground, land (8, 9) He sent forth a dove . . . --From the nature of its food, the raven had not brought back to Noah any special information; but as the dove feeds on vegetable products, he hopes that he shall learn by her means what is the state of "the ground," the low-lying adamah. But as this species of bird does not fly far from its home, except when assembled in vast numbers, it quickly returned, finding water all around. This proves that the ark had not settled upon a lofty eminence; for as it had been already aground 120 days, and as within another fortnight the waters had "abated from off the earth," it could only have been in some valley or plain among the mountains of Ararat that the waters were thus "on the face of the whole earth," the larger word, yet which certainly does not mean here the whole world, but only a very small region in the immediate neighbourhood of the ark. For, supposing that the raven was sent out one week before the dove, forty-seven days (see Genesis 8:6) would have elapsed since Noah beheld the glorious panorama of mountain heights all around, and seven days afterwards the dove brought him a freshplucked olive-leaf. Yet, literally, the words are, for waters were upon the face of the whole earth. Plainly these large terms in the language of the Bible are to be limited in their interpretation by the general tenor of its narratives. For a similar conclusive instance, comp. Exodus 9:6 with Exodus 9:19-20.Verses 8, 9. - Also he sent forth - per. 10 seems to Warrant the inference that this was after an interval of seven days (Baumgarten, Knobel, Keil, Lange) - a dove. Literally, the dove. The Scriptural references to the dove are very numerous: cf. Psalm 68:14 (its beautiful plumage); Leviticus 5:7; Leviticus 12:6 (its sacrificial use); Isaiah 38:14; Isaiah 59:11 (its plaintive notes); Psalm 55:6 (its power of flight); Matthew 10:16 (its gentleness); vide also the metaphorical usage of the term in Song of Solomon 1:15; Song of Solomon 5:12 (beautiful eyes); Song of Solomon 5:2; Song of Solomon 6:9 (a term of endearment). From him. I.e. from himself, from the ark; not ὀπίχω αὐτοῦ (LXX.), post eum (Vulgate); i.e. after the raven. Lange thinks the expression indicates that the gentle creature had to be driven from its shelter out upon the wide waste of water. To see if the waters were abated - literally, lightened, i.e. decreased (per. 11) - from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the solo of her foot. The earth being not yet dry, but wet and muddy, and doves delighting to settle only on such places as are dry and clean; or the mountain tops, though visible, being either too distant or too high, and doves delighting in valleys and level plains, whence they are called doves of the valleys (Ezekiel 7:16). And she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were upon (literally, waters upon; a much more graphic statement than appears in the A.V.) the face of the whole earth: then (literally, and) he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in (literally, caused her to come in) unto him into the ark. 8:4-12 The ark rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed by the wise and gracious providence of God, that might rest the sooner. God has times and places of rest for his people after their tossing; and many times he provides for their seasonable and comfortable settlement, without their own contrivance, and quite beyond their own foresight. God had told Noah when the flood would come, yet he did not give him an account by revelation, at what times and by what steps it should go away. The knowledge of the former was necessary to his preparing the ark; but the knowledge of the latter would serve only to gratify curiosity; and concealing it from him would exercise his faith and patience. Noah sent forth a raven from the ark, which went flying about, and feeding on the carcasses that floated. Noah then sent forth a dove, which returned the first time without good news; but the second time, she brought an olive leaf in her bill, plucked off, plainly showing that trees, fruit trees, began to appear above water. Noah sent forth the dove the second time, seven days after the first, and the third time was after seven days also; probably on the sabbath day. Having kept the sabbath with his little church, he expected especial blessings from Heaven, and inquired concerning them. The dove is an emblem of a gracious soul, that, finding no solid peace of satisfaction in this deluged, defiling world, returns to Christ as to its ark, as to its Noah, its rest. The defiling world, returns to Christ as to its ark, as to its Noah, its rest. The carnal heart, like the raven, takes up with the world, and feeds on the carrion it finds there; but return thou to my rest, O my soul; to thy Noah, so the word is, Ps 116:7. And as Noah put forth his hand, and took the dove, and pulled her to him, into the ark, so Christ will save, and help, and welcome those that flee to him for rest. 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