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12 genesis 8:1
8:1 8
The story changed after
the flood.
Before this point, the flood story
has been about God’s judgment.
Now the story becomes one of
redemption. When the Bible says
that God remembered Noah,
it doesn’t mean that God had
forgotten him. Instead, it means
that God honored his promise to
Noah.
8:4
Location of the mountains
of Ararat
This mountain range was north of
Mesopotamia and east of modern
Turkey.
8:6 – 12
Noah sent out birds.
First, Noah sent out a raven, but it
didn’t give him a clear answer. The
dove ate only leaves, so it could
better tell Noah that land and
vegetation had reappeared.
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8:11
Why an olive leaf is special
Olive trees grow at lower elevation.
The fresh leaf from the dove told
Noah that the water was low
enough for olive trees to grow
again.
But God re­mem­bered Noah and all the wild an­i­mals
and the live­stock that were with him in the ark, and he
sent a wind over the ­earth, and the wa­ters re­ced­ed. 2  Now the
springs of the deep and the flood­gates of the heav­ens had
been ­closed, and the rain had ­stopped fall­ing from the sky.
3  T he wa­ter re­ced­ed steadi­ly from the ­earth. At the end of
the hun­dred and fif­t y days the wa­ter had gone down, 4  and
on the sev­en­teenth day of the sev­enth m
­ onth the ark came
to rest on the moun­tains of Ar­a­rat. 5  The wa­ters con­tin­ued
to re­cede un­til the ­tenth m
­ onth, and on the ­f irst day of the
tenth m
­ onth the tops of the moun­tains be­came vis­i­ble.
6  A f­ter for­t y days Noah o
­ pened a win­dow he had made
in the ark 7  and sent out a ra­ven, and it kept fly­ing back and
forth un­t il the wa­ter had d
­ ried up from the e ­ arth. 8  T hen
he sent out a dove to see if the wa­ter had re­ced­ed from the
sur­face of the g ­ round. 9  But the dove c ­ ould find no­where
to ­perch be­cause t ­ here was wa­ter over all the sur­face of the
earth; so it re­t urned to Noah in the ark. He r ­ eached out his
hand and took the dove and ­brought it back to him­self in
the ark. 10  He wait­ed sev­en more days and ­again sent out
the dove from the ark. 11  W hen the dove re­t urned to him
in the eve­ning, t ­ here in its beak was a fresh­ly ­plucked ol­ive
leaf ! Then Noah knew that the wa­ter had re­ced­ed from the
earth. 12  He wait­ed sev­en more days and sent the dove out
again, but this time it did not re­t urn to him.
13  By the f ­ irst day of the f ­ irst m
­ onth of No­a h’s six hun­
dred and f ­ irst year, the wa­ter had d
­ ried up from the e ­ arth.
Noah then re­moved the cov­er­ing from the ark and saw that
the sur­face of the g ­ round was dry. 14   By the twen­t y-sev­enth
day of the sec­ond ­month the e ­ arth was com­plete­ly dry.
15  T hen God said to Noah, 16  “Come out of the ark, you
and your wife and your sons and t ­ heir w
­ ives. 17  Bring out
ev­ery kind of liv­ing crea­t ure that is with you — ​t he ­birds,
the an­i­mals, and all the crea­tures that move a ­ long the
g round — ​so they can mul­ti­ply on the ­earth and be fruit­f ul
and in­crease in num­ber on it.”
18  S o Noah came out, to­geth­er with his sons and his wife
and his sons’ w
­ ives. 19  A ll the an­i­mals and all the crea­t ures
that move ­a long the ­g round and all the ­birds — ​ev­ery­thing
that m
­ oves on land — ​came out of the ark, one kind af­ter
an­oth­er.
20  T hen Noah ­
built an al­tar to the Lord and, tak­ing
some of all the ­c lean an­i­mals and c ­ lean ­birds, he sac­ri­f iced
­burnt of­fer­ings on it. 21  T he Lord ­smelled the pleas­ing
aro­ma and said in his h
­ eart: “Nev­er a ­ gain will I ­curse the
g round be­cause of hu­mans, even ­though  a ev­ery in­c li­na­tion
of the hu­man h
­ eart is evil from child­hood. And nev­er ­again
will I de­stroy all liv­ing crea­t ures, as I have done.
22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
a  21 Or
humans, for