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Genesis 8

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Part of The Flood📖 Genesis introduction

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1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. ✦ 2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. ✦ 3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. ✦ 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ✦ 5And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. ✦ 6After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ✦ 7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. ✦ 8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. ✦ 9But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark. ✦ 10Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. ✦ 11And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. ✦ 12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him. ✦ 13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. ✦ 14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry. ✦ 15Then God said to Noah, 16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. ✦ 17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.” ✦ 18So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. ✦ 19Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind. 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. ✦ 21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. ✦ 22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Gen 7 ·15Neh 13 ·4Lev 1 ·4Gen 6 ·3Rom 8 ·3Song 2 ·3Gen 9 ·3Gen 8 ·3

Christ at the center

From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.

How Genesis 8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereDocumentaryExpedition BibleJoel Kramer · Free · evangelical

    On-location biblical archaeology from a credentialed archaeologist (M.A., excavated in Israel) — the best free place to start on "did it really happen?"

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereVideoOverview: Genesis 1–11BibleProject · 9 min · Free

    The single best free starting point for Genesis 1–11 — clear, visual, and faithful to the literary design.

  • VideoSpoken GospelSpoken Gospel · Free · evangelical

    Short, gospel-centered videos and spoken-word poems showing how each passage points to Jesus — especially strong on the Old Testament.

  • ReferenceBook of Genesis — Visual GuideBibleProject · Free

    A free structured guide to the whole book — outline, themes, and links to each video.

  • DocumentaryIs Genesis History?Del Tackett · Free · evangelical

    A young-earth-creationist case for a literal Genesis, free on YouTube. (YEC is one view held by faithful Christians; others read Genesis differently — see the genre guide on how to read it.)

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Seminary

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryGenesis (Word Biblical Commentary)Gordon J. Wenham · Paid · evangelical

    For decades the gold-standard commentary on Genesis — technical but rich. (See the ranked list for alternatives like Hamilton, NICOT.)

  • BookThe Pentateuch as NarrativeJohn H. Sailhamer · ~560 pp · Library · evangelical

    A literary-theological reading that makes Genesis's design visible.

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