4 For in seven days ^sI will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, ^tand every living thing¹ that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.