Genesis 8 is the turning point of the flood - God remembers Noah, the waters recede over 150 days, and the dove returns with a freshly plucked olive leaf to signal that judgment has given way to new life. Noah reads the birds as scouts across seven-day intervals, and finally hears God’s command to emerge. The chapter c
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God remembered Noah And 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
The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped And the rain from the sky was restrained The waters continually receded from the earth After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded The ship rested in the seventh month On the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains
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 visible At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ship
He sent out a raven It went back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth He sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated
The dove found no place to rest her foot And she returned into the ship to him For the waters were on the surface of the whole earth He put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ship
He waited yet another seven days And again he sent the dove out of the ship The dove came back to him at evening And behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth
He waited yet another seven days And sent out the dove And she didn’t return to him any more In the six hundred and first year 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 dry God spoke to Noah saying Go out of the ship, you and your wife Your sons and your sons’ wives with you
Bring out with you every living thing That they may breed abundantly and be fruitful And multiply on the earth
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Genesis 8 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.