Genesis 8:11-21

11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Cross References 14

  • 1. ver 7
  • 2. S Genesis 5:32
  • 3. S Genesis 7:11
  • 4. S Genesis 7:13
  • 5. S Genesis 1:22
  • 6. 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5
  • 7. Genesis 12:7-8; Genesis 13:18; Genesis 22:9; Genesis 26:25; Genesis 33:20; Genesis 35:7; Exodus 17:15; Exodus 24:4
  • 8. S Genesis 7:8; Leviticus 11:1-47
  • 9. Genesis 22:2,13; Exodus 10:25; Exodus 20:24; Exodus 40:29; Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 4:29; Leviticus 6:8-13; Numbers 6:11; Judges 6:26; Judges 11:31; 1 Samuel 20:29; Job 1:5; Job 42:8
  • 10. Exodus 29:18,25; Leviticus 1:9,13; Leviticus 2:9; Leviticus 4:31; Numbers 15:3,7; 2 Corinthians 2:15
  • 11. S Genesis 3:17
  • 12. Genesis 6:5; Psalms 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Matthew 15:19; Romans 1:21
  • 13. Jeremiah 44:11
  • 14. Genesis 9:11,15; Isaiah 54:9

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