Genesis 8:12
He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
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- Gen 2:2-3 : 2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
- Gen 8:10 : 10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
- Ps 27:14 : 14 Rely on the LORD! Be strong and confident! Rely on the LORD!
- Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I rely on the LORD, I rely on him with my whole being; I wait for his assuring word. 6 I yearn for the Lord, more than watchmen do for the morning, yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.
- Isa 8:17 : 17 I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
- Isa 25:9 : 9 At that time they will say,“Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the LORD! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
- Isa 26:8 : 8 Yes, as your judgments unfold, O LORD, we wait for you. We desire your fame and reputation to grow.
- Isa 30:18 : 18 The Lord Will Not Abandon His People For this reason the LORD is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the LORD is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.
- Hab 2:3 : 3 For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass– it will not arrive late.
- Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains. 8 You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.
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- Gen 8:1-1111 verses94%
1 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.
2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
3 The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 The 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.
10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
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.
- Gen 8:13-197 verses77%
13 In 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.
14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah and said,
16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17 Bring 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!”
18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
- Gen 7:3-1311 verses75%
3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.
4 For 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.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
11 In 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.
12 And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On 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 verses75%
23 So 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.
24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
- Gen 7:17-182 verses74%
17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
18 The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
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28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
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11 I 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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20 The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.