⁷ and sent out a raven,^(A) and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.^{(B) 8} Then he sent out a dove^(C) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. ⁹ But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.