Genesis 8:8
He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
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- Song 2:14 : 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
- Gen 8:10-12 : 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. 12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
- Song 1:15 : 15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved
- Song 2:11-12 : 11 For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
- Matt 10:16 : 16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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- Gen 8:9-2012 verses87%
9but 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.
10He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
11The 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.
12He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
13It 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.
14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15God spoke to Noah, saying,
16"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17Bring 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."
18Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
19Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
20Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Gen 8:1-77 verses87%
1God 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.
2The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
4The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
5The 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.
6It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
7and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
- Gen 7:17-204 verses74%
17The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
18The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
- Gen 7:7-104 verses71%
7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
8Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
9went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
10It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
- Gen 7:23-242 verses71%
23Every 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.
24The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
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12The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Gen 7:3-42 verses69%
3Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
4In 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."
- Gen 9:10-112 verses68%
10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
11I 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."
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8God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
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8But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
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14Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
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7For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
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5and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;