Genesis 7 - 8

Noah and the Flood

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, p "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that q you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all r clean animals, 1 the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs 2 of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days s I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, t and every living thing 3 that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." 5 u And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the v fountains of the great deep burst forth, and w the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They x went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in y as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.

17 The flood z continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits 4 deep. 21 And a all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land b in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only c Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Genesis 8

The Flood Subsides

1 But God d remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And e God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 f The fountains of the deep and f the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end g of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of h Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 "Go out from the ark, i you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - that they may swarm on the earth, and j be fruitful and multiply on the earth." 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

God's Covenant with Noah

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled k the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again l curse 5 the ground because of man, for m the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. n Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 o While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, p day and night, shall not cease."

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 24:38 - 39
    For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark.
    Luke 17:26 - 27
    Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
    Hebrews 11:7
    By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
    1 Peter 3:20
    Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
    2 Peter 2:5
    If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 6:9
    These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 8:20
    Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
    Leviticus 11:1
    And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 7:12
    And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
    Genesis 7:17
    The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
    Job 37:11 - 13
    He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 6:17
    For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 6:22
    Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 8:2
    The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained.
    Proverbs 8:28
    When he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep.
    Amos 9:6
    Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth - the Lord is his name.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 8:2
    The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained.
    2 Kings 7:19
    The captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
    Isaiah 24:18
    He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
    Malachi 3:10
    Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
    Psalms 78:23
    Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 6:20
    Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 7:2 - 3
    Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate.
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 7:4
    For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
    Genesis 7:12
    And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 7:4
    For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
    Genesis 6:13
    And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
    Genesis 6:17
    For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
    2 Peter 3:6
    And that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
  13. Cross References
    Genesis 2:7
    Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
  14. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:5
    If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 19:29
    So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
    Genesis 30:22
    Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
    Exodus 2:24
    And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
    1 Samuel 1:19
    They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord ; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 14:21
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
  17. Cross References
    Genesis 7:11
    In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 7:11
    In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 7:24
    And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
  20. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:37
    And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
    Isaiah 37:38
    And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
    Jeremiah 51:27
    Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 7:13
    On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark.
  22. Cross References
    Genesis 1:22
    And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
    Genesis 1:28
    And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
    Genesis 9:1
    And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
  23. Cross References
    Exodus 29:18
    And burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a bu...
    Exodus 29:25
    Then you shall take them from their hands and b...
    Exodus 29:41
    The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and...
    Leviticus 1:9
    But its entrails and its legs he shall wash wit...
    Leviticus 1:13
    But the entrails and the legs he shall wash wit...
    Leviticus 1:17
    He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall n...
    Ezekiel 16:19
    Also my bread that I gave you - I fed you with ...
    Ezekiel 20:41
    As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I b...
    2 Corinthians 2:15
    For we are the aroma of Christ to God among tho...
    Ephesians 5:2
    And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave h...
    Philippians 4:18
    I have received full payment, and more. I am we...
  24. Cross References
    Genesis 3:17
    And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
    Genesis 6:17
    For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
  25. Cross References
    Genesis 6:5
    The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
    Psalms 58:3
    The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
    Romans 1:21
    For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
    Matthew 15:19
    For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
  26. Cross References
    Genesis 9:11
    I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
    Genesis 9:15
    I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
    Isaiah 54:9
    This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.
  27. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:24
    They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:20
    Thus says the Lord : If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time.
    Jeremiah 33:25
    Thus says the Lord : If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth.
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