¹² Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out ^(A)the dove; but it did not return to him again.

¹³ Now it came about in the ^(B)six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up ^[a]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the ^[b]surface of the ground had dried up. ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.