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    Genesis 8

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    The raven goes out first, but the chapter leaves it flying back and forth until the waters dry, with neither destination nor report supplied. The dove, by contrast, becomes Noah’s tiny correspondent: no resting place, then an olive leaf, then no return at all.

    The waters withdraw, and the birds are sent outvv. 1–14

    God sends a wind, closes the springs and floodgates, and the waters steadily recede. The ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat, while the mountain tops emerge in their own good time. After forty days Noah opens the window and sends out a raven, whose movements are recorded but not explained. Then comes the dove: she returns because there is nowhere to rest, returns again with a freshly plucked olive leaf, and finally does not return. Noah waits through the appointed intervals, removes the covering, and sees dry ground; by the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth is fully dry.

    The ark opens at lastvv. 15–19

    God tells Noah to come out with his wife, his sons, and their wives, and to bring out every living creature. Noah does so, and the whole crowded company leaves the ark, kind by kind. After all that waiting, the departure is remarkably orderly: birds, livestock, creeping things, and everything that moves upon the earth.

    An altar, an aroma, and the ordinary seasonsvv. 20–22

    Noah’s first recorded act outside the ark is to build an altar and offer burnt offerings from every kind of clean animal and clean bird. The LORD smells the pleasing aroma and speaks in His heart: the ground and its living creatures will not again be destroyed in this way. Seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night are set in a continuing sequence.

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    1. Gen 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

    2. Gen 8:2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

    3. Gen 8:3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

    4. Gen 8:4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

    5. Gen 8:5And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

    6. Gen 8:6After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

    7. Gen 8:7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

    8. Gen 8:8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

    9. Gen 8:9But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

    10. Gen 8:10Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

    11. Gen 8:11And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

    12. Gen 8:12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

    13. Gen 8:13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

    14. Gen 8:14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

    15. Gen 8:15Then God said to Noah,

    16. Gen 8:16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

    17. Gen 8:17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

    18. Gen 8:18So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

    19. Gen 8:19Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

    20. Gen 8:20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

    21. Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

    22. Gen 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

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    • 22James 5:7Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
    • 1Genesis 30:22Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
    • 1Genesis 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
    • 1Psalms 136:23He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
    • 212 Corinthians 2:15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
    • 22Jeremiah 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
    • 22Psalms 74:16–17The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
    • 1Exodus 2:24So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
    • 11 Samuel 1:19The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
    • 22Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
    • 22Song of Songs 2:11–12For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
    • 21Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
    • 1Psalms 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
    • 1Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
    • 21Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
    • 21Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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