Genesis 8:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 7:24 : 24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
  • Gen 7:11 : 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.

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  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, 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 ark.

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

  • Gen 8:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; 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.

  • Gen 8:4-15
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    4 The ark 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 ark which he had made,

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

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

    9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; 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 ark.

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

    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 off the earth.

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

    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 off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, 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,

  • Gen 7:17-20
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    83%

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

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

    19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    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.

  • 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."

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

  • 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • Gen 8:17-19
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    17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, 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 forth out of the ark.

  • 11 I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."

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

  • 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

  • 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.