28 Jun 2025 – jeffersonvann

Genesis 8

Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the living things and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters began to dry.

Genesis 8:2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were closed, the rain from the sky was restrained,

Genesis 8:3 and the water receded from the land continually. At the end of 150 days the water had gone down,

Genesis 8:4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:5 And the water continued to go down until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Genesis 8:6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water was dried up from the land.

Genesis 8:8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water had receded from the face of the ground.

Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned for him to the ark, because the water was still on the face of the whole land. So, he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

Genesis 8:10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:11 And the dove came back to him in the evening and he noticed that in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So, Noah understood that the water had subsided from the land.

Genesis 8:12 Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

Genesis 8:13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water had dried from off the land. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and noticed the face of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land had dried out.

Genesis 8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, and this is what he said,

Genesis 8:16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 8:17 Bring out with you everything alive of every flesh that is with you: birds and living things and every moving thing on the land – that they may swarm on the land and be fruitful and multiply on the land.”

Genesis 8:18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

Genesis 8:19 Every living thing, every moving thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the land, went in groups from the ark.

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to Yahveh and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered ascending offerings[1] on the altar.

Genesis 8:21 And when Yahveh smelled the pleasing aroma, Yahveh said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, because the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Genesis 8:22 While all the days of the land remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not stop.”

[1] עֹלָה = ascending offering. Genesis 8:20; 22:2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13.

Genesis 8 quotes:

“Always prepare your heart to give strange obedience to strange instructions in order to facilitate strange positive results. When the unusual happens, especially after much prayer and absolute dependence on God, do not panic; that’s part of the deliverance package. All you need to do is contact the control tower. The unusual God will use the unusual means to remove the unusual sound that terrorises you and land your ark safely in an unusual manner.”

Ajitena, Ebenezer. Designed for Success: A Motivational Book for Today’s “Ark-Builder.” Emmanuel House, 2000. p. 47.

“This is the second mention of ‘rest’ in Scripture, the first being when God rested after His work of creation (Genesis 2:2). Actually, these are two different, though synonymous, Hebrew words (‘Shabath’, Genesis 2:2 and ‘Nuwach’, Genesis 8:4). If the ark is a true type of Christ…this is most appropriate. As God ‘finished’ His work of creation and as the ark ‘finished’ its mission, so also Christ ‘finished His work of salvation. (John 19:30, ‘It is finished’).”

Johnson, Jeffrey D. God Was There: Genesis Chapters 1-12. Resource Publications, 2005. p. 86.

“What we are really learning in Genesis 8:1 is that God is active. Theistic evolutionists believe that God has created this world by a process of blind evolution. Although they object strongly when I say it, they basically believe that God has set everything going and then stands back in order to observe it, without real involvement. Genesis 8:1 is, therefore, strong evidence against theistic evolution. God left nothing to chance.”

Taylor, Paul. Don’t Miss the Boat : Facts to Keep Your Faith Afloat. Master Books, 2013. p. 38.