Category: Genesis Chapter 8
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The Sweetness of Sacrifice – Genesis 8:21-22
Genesis 8:21-22 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more 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. While the…
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Altared Before Anything Else – Genesis 8:20
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. What was the first thing Noah did when he stepped into the new world? He built an altar. That tells me a lot about what had happened…
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Come, Then Go – Genesis 8:14-19
Genesis 8:14-19 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee,…
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The First Day of a New World – Genesis 8:13
Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. This verse feels…
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The Third Sending – Genesis 8:10-12
Genesis 8:10-12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he…
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Room for the Dove – Genesis 8:6-9
Genesis 8:6-9 …at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters…
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It Came to Pass – Genesis 8:5-6
Genesis 8:5-6 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. And it came to pass… I love that phrase. It came to pass. It did not come to stay. That storm which had seemed endless came…
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Resting on Resurrection – Genesis 8:2-4
Genesis 8:2-4 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the…
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Remembered in the Silence – Genesis 8:1
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark… and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged. What a beautiful verse this is. After all the noise of the storm, after all the long days of silence,…