8:8 Then Noah 1 sent out a dove 2 to see if the waters had receded 3 from the surface of the ground.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Noah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn The Hebrew text adds “from him.” This has not been translated for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.
3 tn The Hebrew verb קָלָל (qalal) normally means “to be light, to be slight”; it refers here to the waters receding.