Text -- Genesis 8:12 (NET)

8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 8:12

¹ tn The word “again” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “it did not again return to him still.” For a study of this section of the flood narrative, see W. O. E. Oesterley, “The Dove with the Olive Leaf (Gen VIII 8–11),” ExpTim 18 (1906/07): 377-78.