Holy Scripture
Genesis 8:7
A church father on this verse
“But for the present we need to explain the reason why the bird [the raven] did not come back. Perhaps, with the waters subsiding, the bird, being unclean, happened upon corpses of men and beasts and, finding nourishment to its liking, stayed there! This would have been something that proved to be no little sign of hop…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.
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5And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
6And it came to pass after forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
— Genesis 8:7 —
8And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.
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.