Genesis 8:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove, which did not return to him anymore.

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  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
  • Gen 8:10 : 10 And he waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the LORD.
  • Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning; yes, more than those who watch for the morning.
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, who hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.
  • Isa 25:9 : 9 And it will be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
  • Isa 26:8 : 8 Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all those who wait for him.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain. 8 Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is near.

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  • Gen 8:1-11
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    1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

    2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

    3And the waters receded continually from the earth, and after one hundred and fifty days the waters were diminished.

    4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

    5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

    6And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

    7And he sent forth a raven, which went back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.

    8Also, he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

    9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark.

    10And he waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

    11And the dove came to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

  • Gen 8:13-19
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    13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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

    15And God spoke to Noah, saying,

    16Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

    17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.

    18And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

    19Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

  • Gen 7:3-13
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    3Of birds also of the air, seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

    4For in seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth.

    5And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were upon the earth.

    7And Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

    8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,

    9They went in two by two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

    10And it occurred after seven days that the floodwaters were upon the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened.

    12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13On the same day, Noah entered, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed, both man and cattle, creeping things and birds of the sky; they were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

    24And the waters prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:17-18
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    17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 9:28
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    28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

  • Gen 9:11
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    11And I will establish my covenant with you; never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.

  • Gen 7:20
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    20The waters covered them fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.