Genesis 8:9
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.
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- Deut 28:65 : 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
- Ps 116:7 : 7 Rest once more, my soul, for the LORD has vindicated you.
- Isa 60:8 : 8 Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?
- Ezek 7:16 : 16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan– each one for his iniquity.
- Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”
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- Gen 8:1-88 verses87%
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.
- Gen 8:10-1910 verses86%
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.
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.
- Gen 7:17-182 verses73%
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 7:23-242 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 7:7-104 verses72%
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,
9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
- Gen 7:12-132 verses71%
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.
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8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.
- Gen 9:10-112 verses69%
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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15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
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18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
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14Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.
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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.
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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.”