Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 8

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Genesis 8 . 1 , God remembers Noah , and assuages the waters; Genesis 8 . 4 , The ark rests on Ararat; Genesis 8 . 6 , Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove; Genesis 8 . 13 , Noah , being commanded , goes forth from the ark; Genesis 8 . 20 , He builds an altar , and offers sacrifice , which God accepts , and promises to curse the earth no more.

Genesis 8:1

But 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.

Genesis 8:1 · BSB

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Genesis 8:2

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

Genesis 8:2 · BSB

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Genesis 8:3

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

Genesis 8:3 · BSB

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continually Heb. in going and returning

Genesis 8:4

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

Genesis 8:4 · BSB

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Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia , as it is rendered elsewhere , in which there is a great chain of mountains , like the Alps or the Pyrenees , upon the highest part of which , called by some , "The Finger Mountain ," the ark is supposed to have rested

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seventh month That is , of the year , not of the deluge.

Genesis 8:5

And 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.

Genesis 8:5 · BSB

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Heb. were in going and decreasing , the tenth

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Genesis 8:6

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Genesis 8:6 · BSB

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Genesis 8:7

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

Genesis 8:7 · BSB

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went forth to and fro Heb. in going forth and returning

Genesis 8:8

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

Genesis 8:8 · BSB

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Genesis 8:9

But 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.

Genesis 8:9 · BSB

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pulled her Heb. caused her to come

Genesis 8:10

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

Genesis 8:10 · BSB

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Genesis 8:11

And 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.

Genesis 8:11 · BSB

Genesis 8:12

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

Genesis 8:12 · BSB

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Genesis 8:13

In 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.

Genesis 8:13 · BSB

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Genesis 8:14

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

Genesis 8:14 · BSB

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  • Genesis 7:11
  • Genesis 7:13
  • Genesis 7:14 from this , it appears , that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year , or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month , in the 600th year of his life , and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month , in the 601st year of his life , as we see above

Genesis 8:15

Then God said to Noah,

Genesis 8:15 · BSB

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Genesis 8:16

"Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

Genesis 8:16 · BSB

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Genesis 8:17

Bring 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."

Genesis 8:17 · BSB

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Genesis 8:18

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.

Genesis 8:18 · BSB

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Genesis 8:19

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

Genesis 8:19 · BSB

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Heb. families

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Genesis 8:20

Then 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.

Genesis 8:20 · BSB

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Genesis 8:21

When 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.

Genesis 8:21 · BSB

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sweet savour Heb. savour of rest

for or , though

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease."

Genesis 8:22 · BSB

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Heb. as yet all the days of the earth

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Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts , called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text , which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews , and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise , the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses , the seasons their successions , and the earth its increase for the use of man

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