Genesis 8
HALLGenesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was within the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswayed;
Then God, who cannot forget his mercy to his, shewed by the effect to Noah, that he remembered him, and, for his sake, all the wild beasts and tame cattle, that were with him in the ark; therefore God, by his immediate power, caused an extraordinary drying or driving wind to pass about the earth, thus covered c 2 with waters, and the fury of the waters began by little and little to decrease:
Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained:
And God made way for the channels of the earth to receive in the waters, which they had sent forth; and shut up the lower waters into their former receptacles; and closed up the passages of the clouds above; and so the fall of the rain was restrained, when it had continued forty days and nights:
Genesis 8:3
And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And after the end of the hundred and fiftieth day from the beginning of the flood, the waters sensibly abated.
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And in the seventh month, and in the seventeenth day of the month, the ark, which had hitherto floated uncertainly, and was carried up by the force of the waves, that it could feel no ground, now, in the ebbing of the waters, stayed upon one of the high mountains of Ararat, the ledge whereof passeth along from Armenia eastward towards India.
Genesis 8:5
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: and in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
And from this resting of the ark, in the space of seventy-three days, which was till the first day of the tenth month, the waters so far abated, that the tops of the mountains were seen.
Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the windows of the ark which he had made:
And, forty days after the first of the tenth month, which fell upon the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Noah opened one of the windows of the ark, which he had made:
Genesis 8:7
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
And he let forth a raven, (because that fowl was of a good scent, and used to feed on carcasses, which might be found lying upon the mountains,) thereby to have perfect knowledge of the decrease of the waters; which continued fluttering up and down, to and fro, not far from the ark, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.
Genesis 8:8
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
Again, since he could have no information hereof by the raven, about seven days after, he sent out a dove from him; a bird, that was both more tame and domestical, and which was wont to seek her food in the plains; that, by this second messenger, he might see, if the earth were yet lightened of her burthen of waters.
Genesis 8:9
For the waters were upon the face of the whole earth.
For the waters were still over all that part of the earth, where he should have rested; and still covered all the plains.
Genesis 8:13
And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
And Noah removed some part of the roof of the ark, that he might look round about him; and, viewing it, found that the upper part of the ground, even of the plains, appeared dry, that is, not covered over with waters; though still soft and moorish, with the continuance of that former moisture, that it was not yet fit for habitation.
Genesis 8:14
And, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, was the earth dry.
And, in the second month, in the twenty-seventh day of the month, which was a year and ten days after the beginning of the flood, was the earth fully dry, and firm, and habitable again.
Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Then Noah, moved thereto by the godly example of his forefathers and by warrant from God, built an altar to the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, one, (for God had appointed him one odd of each of these for this purpose,) and, partly for expiation, partly in token of his thankfulness, offered them, as a burnt-offering consumed to ashes unto God, for preservation of them and all their fellow-creatures.
Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
And the Lord, who was before offended with mankind, now was pacified toward the remainder of them: and pleased graciously to accept this obedience of Noah; and, as he had eternally decreed, so he uttered his counsel to Noah. I will not from henceforth send any more such general curse upon the earth, for man’s sake; for I see, that if I should judge him according to his deserts, I should every day bring upon him a new deluge, for behold, all the thoughts and the whole fashion of man’s heart is altogether evil, even from his infancy: my mercy therefore shall exalt itself above his sins; neither will I any more smite all living things, as I have now done, with a universal destruction.
Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Hereafter, the course and use of the seasons of the year, the harvest, the spring, winter, and summer; and their tempers of heat and cold, and the differences of the night and day, (which now, in the thick and gloomy darkness, could not well be observed,) shall no more generally cease, over all the whole earth, at once, so long as the earth remaineth in this state.