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


In Context

9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet 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.

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

11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

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

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then 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 completely dry.

Genesis 8:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to him any more.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to him any more.