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Text -- Genesis 8:1-12 (NET)
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8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark . God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded .
8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed , and the rain stopped falling from the sky .
8:3 The waters kept receding steadily from the earth , so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days .
8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month , the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat .
8:5 The waters kept on receding until the tenth month . On the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains became visible .
8:6 At the end of forty days , Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven ; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth .
8:8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground .
8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth , and so it returned to Noah in the ark . He stretched out his hand , took the dove, and brought it back into the ark .
8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark .
8:11 When the dove returned to him in the evening , there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak ! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth .
8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again , but it did not return to him this time.
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NET Notes: Gen 8:2 Some (e.g., NIV) translate the preterite verb forms in this verse as past perfects (e.g., “had been closed”), for it seems likely that the...
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NET Notes: Gen 8:3 The vav (ו) consecutive with the preterite here describes the consequence of the preceding action.
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NET Notes: Gen 8:4 Ararat is the Hebrew name for Urartu, the name of a mountainous region located north of Mesopotamia in modern day eastern Turkey. See E. M. Yamauchi, ...
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NET Notes: Gen 8:6 Heb “opened the window in the ark which he had made.” The perfect tense (“had made”) refers to action preceding the opening of...
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NET Notes: Gen 8:7 Heb “and it went out, going out and returning.” The Hebrew verb יָצָא (yatsa’), translated here “...
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NET Notes: Gen 8:8 The Hebrew verb קָלָל (qalal) normally means “to be light, to be slight”; it refers here to the waters reced...
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NET Notes: Gen 8:11 The deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) draws attention to the olive leaf. It invites readers to enter into the story...
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