Genesis 8:12

World English Bible (2000)

He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

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  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 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 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
  • Gen 8:10 : 10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. By David.
  • Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word. 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
  • Isa 25:9 : 9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! 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, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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  • Gen 8:1-11
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    1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

    2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

    3 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

    4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

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

    6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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

    8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

    9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

    10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

    11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

  • Gen 8:13-19
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    13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

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

    15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

    16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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

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

    19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

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    3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

    4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

    5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

    6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

    7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

    8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

    9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

    10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

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

    12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

    24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

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    17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

  • 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

  • 11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."

  • 20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.