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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 all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. ✦ 2Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; ✦ 3and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased. ✦ 4Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. ✦ 5And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. ✦ 6Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; ✦ 7and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. ✦ 8Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water was low on the surface of the land; ✦ 9but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself. ✦ 10So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ✦ 11And the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, in its beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. ✦ 12Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again. ✦ 13Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground had dried up. ✦ 14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. ✦ 15Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. ✦ 17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” ✦ 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. ✦ 19Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark. 20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took some of every kind of clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ✦ 21The Lord smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. ✦ 22“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.” ✦

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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.

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  • ★ 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?"

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    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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