Genesis 8:11
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.
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- Neh 8:15 : 15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem:“Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”
- Zech 4:12-14 : 12 Before he could reply I asked again,“What are these two extensions of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?” 13 He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” And I said,“No, sir.” 14 So he said,“These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
- Rom 10:15 : 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written,“How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.”
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- Gen 8:1-1010 verses85%
1But 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.
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.
4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
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.
- Gen 8:12-209 verses85%
12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
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,
16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
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 7:10-134 verses73%
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.
13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.
- Gen 7:23-242 verses72%
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 9:16-172 verses71%
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 7:17-182 verses71%
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.
- Gen 7:7-82 verses70%
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 9:10-112 verses70%
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.”
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8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.
- Gen 7:4-52 verses69%
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.
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8God said to Noah and his sons,
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15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
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1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.