Thematic Bible
Genesis 8:1 (show verse)
God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark. He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
Genesis 8:2 (show verse)
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the skies were closed. So the rain stopped falling from the sky.
Genesis 8:3 (show verse)
Water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down.
Genesis 8:4 (show verse)
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:5 (show verse)
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
Genesis 8:6 (show verse)
After forty days Noah opened the window he constructed in the ark.
Genesis 8:7 (show verse)
He sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:8 (show verse)
Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
Genesis 8:9 (show verse)
The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
Genesis 8:10 (show verse)
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
Genesis 8:11 (show verse)
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
Genesis 8:12 (show verse)
He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
Genesis 8:13 (show verse)
By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Genesis 8:14 (show verse)
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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Genesis 8:15 (show verse)
God said to Noah:
Genesis 8:16 (show verse)
Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
Genesis 8:17 (show verse)
Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you, the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground. They will multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.
Genesis 8:18 (show verse)
Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
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Genesis 8:19 (show verse)
All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds, everything that moves on the earth came out of the ark, one kind after another.
Genesis 8:20 (show verse)
Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
Altar » Built by » Noah
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of noah
Animals » Clean and unclean
Animals » Offered in sacrifice
Beasts » Clean » Used for sacrifice
Birds » Clean » Offered in sacrifice
Birds » Early distinguished into clean and clean
the Burnt offering » The most ancient of all sacrifices
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Flood » The promise that it should not recur
Noah » Son of lamech » Receives the covenant from God that no flood would ever again visit the earth; the rainbow instituted as a token of the covenant
Noah » Facts concerning » Built the first altar recorded
Noah » Son of lamech » Builds an altar and offers sacrifices
Patriarchal government » Exercised in » Acting as priests
priests » During patriarchal age heads of families acted as
Sacrifices » Consisted of » Clean animals » Bloody » Sacrifices
Sheep » Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age
Sheep » Offered in sacrifice » By noah
Thankfulness » To God, instances of » Of noah
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of noah
Animals » Clean and unclean
Animals » Offered in sacrifice
Beasts » Clean » Used for sacrifice
Birds » Clean » Offered in sacrifice
Birds » Early distinguished into clean and clean
the Burnt offering » The most ancient of all sacrifices
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Flood » The promise that it should not recur
Noah » Son of lamech » Receives the covenant from God that no flood would ever again visit the earth; the rainbow instituted as a token of the covenant
Noah » Facts concerning » Built the first altar recorded
Noah » Son of lamech » Builds an altar and offers sacrifices
Patriarchal government » Exercised in » Acting as priests
priests » During patriarchal age heads of families acted as
Sacrifices » Consisted of » Clean animals » Bloody » Sacrifices
Sheep » Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age
Sheep » Offered in sacrifice » By noah
Thankfulness » To God, instances of » Of noah
Genesis 8:21 (show verse)
Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.
the Burnt offering » Specially acceptable
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Covenant » The covenant with noah
the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Promised
Evil » The whole » Imagination
Evil » What is evil
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Evil in heart
Flood » The promise that it should not recur
Heart » The heart of man
Heart » The unregenerate » Is full of iniquity
character of the unrenewed Heart » Full of evil imaginations
Man » The heart of man
Noah » Son of lamech » Builds an altar and offers sacrifices
Sacrifices » Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith
Seed » Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant
Sin » All the imaginations of the unrenewed heart are
Worship » Acceptable to God
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Covenant » The covenant with noah
the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Promised
Evil » The whole » Imagination
Evil » What is evil
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Evil in heart
Flood » The promise that it should not recur
Heart » The heart of man
Heart » The unregenerate » Is full of iniquity
character of the unrenewed Heart » Full of evil imaginations
Man » The heart of man
Noah » Son of lamech » Builds an altar and offers sacrifices
Sacrifices » Were accepted when offered in sincerity and faith
Seed » Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant
Sin » All the imaginations of the unrenewed heart are
Worship » Acceptable to God
Genesis 8:22 (show verse)
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.
Agriculture » Operations in » Harvest
Agriculture » Facts about
Agriculture » Seedtime and harvest promised
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Days » General reference to
Days » Succession of, secured by covenant
the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Promised
Earth » Facts concerning
Gifts from God » Temporal » Rain and fruitful seasons
Harvest » Natural
Harvest » Promises of plentiful
Harvest » To continue without intermission
Meteorology » Heat
Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant
Noah » Son of lamech » Receives the covenant from God that no flood would ever again visit the earth; the rainbow instituted as a token of the covenant
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
Seed » Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant
Seed » Sowing of » Time for, called seed-time
Spring » Season of, promised annual return of
Summer » Yearly return of, secured by covenant
Summer » Season of, promised while the earth remains
Winter » Yearly return of, secured by covenant
Winter » Annual return of, will never cease
Years » Divided into » Seasons
Agriculture » Facts about
Agriculture » Seedtime and harvest promised
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Days » General reference to
Days » Succession of, secured by covenant
the Deluge » That it shall never again occur » Promised
Earth » Facts concerning
Gifts from God » Temporal » Rain and fruitful seasons
Harvest » Natural
Harvest » Promises of plentiful
Harvest » To continue without intermission
Meteorology » Heat
Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant
Noah » Son of lamech » Receives the covenant from God that no flood would ever again visit the earth; the rainbow instituted as a token of the covenant
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
Seed » Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant
Seed » Sowing of » Time for, called seed-time
Spring » Season of, promised annual return of
Summer » Yearly return of, secured by covenant
Summer » Season of, promised while the earth remains
Winter » Yearly return of, secured by covenant
Winter » Annual return of, will never cease
Years » Divided into » Seasons