# Genesis 08 📖: The Waters Recede [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Genesis Overview]] | [[Genesis 07]] | [[Genesis 09]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) [[#Verse 01.]] 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.  [[#Verse 02.]] The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. [[#Verse 03.]] The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.  [[#Verse 04.]] On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. [[#Verse 05.]] The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. [[#Verse 06.]] At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark  [[#Verse 07.]] and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth. [[#Verse 08.]] Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.  [[#Verse 09.]] 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.  [[#Verse 10.]] He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. [[#Verse 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.  [[#Verse 12.]] He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time. [[#Verse 13.]] In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.  [[#Verse 14.]] And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. [[#Verse 15.]] Then God spoke to Noah and said,  [[#Verse 16.]] “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.  [[#Verse 17.]] Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!” [[#Verse 18.]] Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.  [[#Verse 19.]] Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups. [[#Verse 20.]] Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  [[#Verse 21.]] And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done. [[#Verse 22.]] “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. "God remembered Noah" (8:1) is the turning point of the flood story. In Hebrew, "remember" means to act on someone's behalf. 2. The ark rested on the mountains of Ararat (8:4), a region in modern eastern Turkey and Armenia. 3. Noah first sent out a raven, which kept flying back and forth (8:7). 4. The dove returned with a fresh olive leaf (8:11), which is why the dove and olive branch became symbols of peace. 5. Noah waited seven days between each sending of the dove (8:10, 12). 6. Noah's family was in the ark a little over a year (7:11; 8:14). 7. Noah's altar is the first altar mentioned in the Bible (8:20). 8. The wind God sends over the earth (8:1) uses the same Hebrew word as the Spirit over the waters in 1:2, echoing creation. 9. God admits the human heart is still evil from youth (8:21), yet promises not to curse the ground again. 10. Noah did not leave the ark until God told him to (8:15-16), even after the ground was dry. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the pleasing sacrifice that brings us into new creation. Noah's offering was a pleasing aroma to the Lord (8:21), and Christ gave Himself as a fragrant offering to God for us (Ephesians 5:2). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. God remembered Noah (8:1). What does it mean that God remembers His people in long seasons of waiting? 2. Noah's first act on dry ground was worship (8:20). What is your first response when God brings you through something? 3. God promised the seasons would not cease (8:22). How does God's faithfulness in creation encourage your faith? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 1: God remembered Noah. - 📖 verse 20: Noah builds an altar and offers burnt offerings. - 📖 verse 22: Seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Ephesians 05#Verse 02.|Ephesians 5:2]] - Christ gave Himself as a fragrant offering. - 🔗 [[2 Corinthians 02#Verse 15.|2 Corinthians 2:15]] - We are the aroma of Christ. - 🔗 [[Psalm 105#Verse 08.|Psalm 105:8]] - He remembers His covenant forever. - 🔗 [[Isaiah 54#Verse 09.|Isaiah 54:9]] - God's oath in the days of Noah. - 🔗 [[2 Peter 03#Verse 05.|2 Peter 3:5-7]] - The world once destroyed by water. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Genesis 08- SOAP|The Lord Shows Mercy]] ## 📂 Internal Notes