Genesis 8:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

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  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done. 3 And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
  • Gen 8:10 : 10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
  • Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word. 6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
  • Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
  • Isa 26:8 : 8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come. 8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

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  • Gen 8:1-11
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    1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

    2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

    3 And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

    4 And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

    5 And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

    6 Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

    7 Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

    8 And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

    9 But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

    10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

    11 And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

  • Gen 8:13-19
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    13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

    14 And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15 And God said to Noah,

    16 Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

    17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

    18 And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;

    19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

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    3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

    4 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

    5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

    6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

    7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

    9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

    10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

    11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

    12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

    24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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    17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

    18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

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    28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

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