The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!

Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

“He will then make one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means,

I say, “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine.

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.

They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord.

Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

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

“‘If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering from the birds, he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons.

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.