Holy Scripture

Genesis 8:11

A church father on this verse
“The Synagogue has not this oil, inasmuch as she has not the olive, and understood not that dove which brought back the olive branch after the deluge. For that Dove descended afterwards when Christ was baptized, and abode upon Him, as John testified in the Gospel, saying: "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letter 41.21

Source: Septuagint

Original

11And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noah knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

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9And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

10And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from the ark.

— Genesis 8:11 —

12And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again anymore.

13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noah, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noah opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

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