1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. 2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains. 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, 7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. 10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship. 11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. 12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more. 13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." 18 Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship. 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters begin to subside, Genesis 8:1-3. The ark rests on Mount Ararat, Genesis 8:4. On the first of the tenth month the tops of the hills appear, Genesis 8:5. The window opened and the raven sent out, Genesis 8:6, Genesis 8:7. The dove sent forth, and returns, Genesis 8:8, Genesis 8:9. The dove sent forth a second time, and returns with an olive leaf, Genesis 8:10, Genesis 8:11. The dove sent out the third time, and returns no more, Genesis 8:12. On the twentieth day of the second month the earth is completely dried, Genesis 8:13, Genesis 8:14. God orders Noah, his family, and all the creatures to come out of the ark, Genesis 8:15-19. Noah builds an altar, and offers sacrifices to the Lord, Genesis 8:20. They are accepted; and God promises that the earth shall not be cursed thus any more, notwithstanding the iniquity of man, Genesis 8:21, Genesis 8:22.
INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 8
This chapter gives an account of the going off of the waters from the earth, and of the entire deliverance of Noah, and those with him in the ark, from the flood, when all the rest were destroyed: after an one hundred and fifty days a wind is sent over the earth, the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven are stopped, the waters go off gradually, and the ark rests on Mount Ararat, Genesis 8:1 two months and thirteen days after that the tops of the mountains were seen, Genesis 8:5 and forty days after the appearance of them, Noah sent forth first a raven, and then a dove, and that a second time, to know more of the abatement of the waters, Genesis 8:6. When Noah had been in the ark ten months and thirteen days, he uncovered it, and the earth was dry, yet not so dry as to be fit for him to go out upon, until near two months after, Genesis 8:13 when he had an order from God to go out of the ark, with all that were with him, which was accordingly obeyed, Genesis 8:15 upon which he offered sacrifice by way of thankfulness for his great deliverance, which was accepted by the Lord; who promised him not to curse the earth any more, nor to drown it, but that it should remain, and as long as it did there would be the constant revolutions of the seasons of the year, and of day and night, Genesis 8:20.
(Genesis 8:1-3) God remembers Noah, and dries up the waters.
(Genesis 8:4-12) The ark rests on Ararat, Noah sends forth a raven and a dove.
(Genesis 8:13-19) Noah being commanded, goes out of the ark.
(Genesis 8:20-22) Noah offers sacrifice, God promises to curse the earth no more.
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