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Genesis 8:1–14 — God Remembers Noah | Bible Commentary · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin Genesis 8, 1 to 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: God remembers Noah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading from the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters receded from the earth continually.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters had abated, and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, and sent forth a raven.
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  SPEAKER_00: It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him any more.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the second month, on the twenty seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage opens with a major turning point.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God remembered Noah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And notice that Noah is not the only one mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_00: God also remembered the beasts and livestock with him in the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage does not say God had forgotten them, it connects his remembering with action.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sends a wind, and the waters subside.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens are closed, and the rain is restrained.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sources that had opened during the flood are now closed, and the waters steadily recede.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice that Genesis says the mountains of Ararat.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does not identify one exact peak.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should keep that distinction rather than assume the passage names a single mountain called Mount Ararat.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ark resting does not mean the ground is already dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: The waters continue to decrease, and the passage gives a later date when the mountaintops become visible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Noah opens the window and sends out a raven.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes to and fro until the waters are dried up from the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, he sends a dove to see whether the waters have subsided from the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dove finds no place to set her foot and returns.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah reaches out and brings her back into the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: He waits another seven days and sends her out again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This time she returns in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis tells us what Noah understood from that leaf.
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  SPEAKER_00: The waters had subsided.
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  SPEAKER_00: Freshly plucked describes the leaf being picked, it does not tell us when it grew.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah waits another seven days and sends the dove out once more.
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  SPEAKER_00: This time she does not return.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage carefully records these stages.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ark rests, the mountaintops appear, Noah sends out the birds, and he waits between the doves' journeys.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives us his actions without describing his thoughts or emotions beyond what it specifically says he knew.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later, Noah removes the covering of the ark, looks, and sees that the face of the ground is dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: The text then gives another date in the following month when the earth had dried out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those details keep us from treating the waters receding, the ark resting, and the earth drying as though they all happened at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 7 ended with the waters prevailing over the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, the waters recede and the ground becomes dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: The account moves from the flood's destruction toward the next stage of life outside the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Genesis 8 1 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with Genesis 8 15 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.