Genesis 8:13

11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

15 Then God said to Noah,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
KJV
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.
WEB
In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
ASV
And it came to pass in the six hundred 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 dried.
DARBY
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.
BLB
And it came to pass in the one and six hundredth year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and he looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
ÅB
I det seks hundre og første år, i den første måned, på den første dag i måneden, var vannet tørket bort fra jorden. Da tok Noah taket av arken; og han så ut, og se, jorden var tørr.
OTB
I det seks hundre og første året, på den første dagen i den første måneden, hadde vannet tørket opp fra jorden. Noah fjernet dekselet fra arken og så at jordens overflate var tørr.
B1930
I det seks hundre og første år, i den første måned, på den første dag i måneden, var vannet tørket bort fra jorden. Da tok Noah taket av arken; og han så ut, og se, jorden var tørr.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Genesis 7:11

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

    Read in context