Genesis 8:6-9

6After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

7and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

8Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,

9but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself.