Genesis 8:1

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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.

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  • 1 Sam 1:19 : 19 They got up early the next morning. Then they worshiped the LORD and returned to their home at Ramathaim. Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the LORD called her to mind.
  • Gen 19:29 : 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
  • Exod 2:24 : 24 God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
  • Exod 14:21 : 21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
  • Gen 30:22 : 22 Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.
  • Num 22:32 : 32 The angel of the LORD said to him,“Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
  • Neh 13:14 : 14 Please remember me for this, O my God, and do not wipe out the kindness that I have done for the temple of my God and for its services!
  • Neh 13:22 : 22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.
  • Neh 13:31 : 31 I also provided for the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits. Please remember me for good, O my God.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you, LORD, preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
  • Ps 104:7-9 : 7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off– 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
  • Ps 132:1 : 1 A song of ascents. O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,
  • Ps 136:23 : 23 to the one who remembered us when we were down, for his loyal love endures,
  • Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said,“Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”
  • Prov 25:23 : 23 The north wind brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue brings forth an angry look.
  • Amos 8:7 : 7 The LORD confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob:“I swear I will never forget all you have done!
  • Jonah 4:11 : 11 Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 LORD, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, LORD, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!
  • Rom 8:20-22 : 20 For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.
  • Rev 16:19 : 19 The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 8:2-3
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    83%

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

    3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

  • Gen 8:5-11
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    5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

    7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

    8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

    9The 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.

    10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

    11When 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.

  • Gen 8:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13In 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.

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

    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

  • Gen 9:15-17
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    77%

    15then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

    16When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

    17So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

    24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

  • Gen 7:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

  • Gen 8:17-20
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    17Bring 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!”

    18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

    19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

    20Noah 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.

  • Gen 9:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.

    11I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    76%

    10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

    11In 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 open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

    12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 9:8
    74%

    8God said to Noah and his sons,

  • Gen 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

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

    5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

  • Gen 6:8
    73%

    8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.

  • Gen 7:7-8
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    73%

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

    8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

  • Gen 9:1
    72%

    1God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.