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Genesis 8:6–12 (KJV)

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flood-1

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:
then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off:
so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

Genesis 8:6–12 · King James Version, 1611

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flood · flood-1

The same three-stage avian reconnaissance protocol from a grounded vessel, with overlapping species (dove, raven) and the identical inferential logic: the bird that does not come back is the good news. The raven's valence is inverted between the two · first success in one, first failure in the other · exactly the kind of transposition a copied record would show.

Noah opens the window and sends a raven, then a dove which finds no rest, then the dove again · 'in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated' · then a third time, and 'she returned not again unto him any more.'

set against Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI

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