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GENESIS CHAPTER 8
The waters abate, Gen_8:1-3. The ark rests on Mount Ararat, Gen_8:4. The day on which the tops of the mountians were seen, noted, Gen_8:5. Noah opens the window of the ark, Gen_8:6; sends forth a raven, Gen_8:7; after that a dove, Gen_8:8, which returned, Gen_8:9. He sends the dove out a second time, Gen_8:10, which returns with an olive leaf, Gen_8:11. He sends her out again, and she returns not, Gen_8:12. The earth dry, Gen_8:13-14. God commands Noah and his family to come out, Gen_8:15-17, which they do, Gen_8:18-19. Noah builds an altar, and sacrifices, Gen_8:20. God accepts it, and promises not to drown the world again, Gen_8:21, but to continue the seasons of the year, Gen_8:22.
God remembered Noah, i.e. he showed by his actions that he minded and cared for him, or pitied and succoured him. God is said to remember his people, when after some delays or suspensions of his favour he returns and shows kindness to them, as Gen_19:29, Gen_30:22, Exo_32:13 Job_14:13 Psa_132:1. As God punished the beasts for man’s sin, so now he favours them for man’s sake.
God made a wind to pass; a drying or burning wind, like that of Exo_14:21, which had a natural power to dry up the waters; but that was heightened by the assistance of a higher and miraculous operation of God.