Genesi 8:15-22

15 E Dio parlò a Noè, dicendo:

16 "Esci dall’arca tu e la tua moglie, i tuoi figliuoli e le mogli dei tuoi figliuoli con te.

17 Fa’ uscire con te tutti gli animali che sono teco, d’ogni carne: uccelli, bestiame, e tutti i rettili che strisciano sulla terra, perché abbondino sulla terra, e figlino e moltiplichino sulla terra".

18 E Noè uscì con i suoi figliuoli, con la sua moglie, e con le mogli dei suoi figliuoli.

19 Tutti gli animali, tutti i rettili, tutti gli uccelli, tutto quel che si muove sulla terra, secondo le loro famiglie, uscirono dall’arca.

20 E Noè edificò un altare all’Eterno; prese d’ogni specie d’animali puri e d’ogni specie d’uccelli puri, e offrì olocausti sull’altare.

21 E l’Eterno sentì un odor soave; e l’Eterno disse in cuor suo: "Io non maledirò più la terra a cagione dell’uomo, poiché i disegni del cuor dell’uomo sono malvagi fin dalla sua fanciullezza; e non colpirò più ogni cosa vivente, come ho fatto.

22 Finché la terra durerà, sementa e raccolta, freddo e caldo, estate e inverno, giorno e notte, non cesseranno mai".

Genesi 8:15-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 8

This chapter gives an account of the going off of the waters from the earth, and of the entire deliverance of Noah, and those with him in the ark, from the flood, when all the rest were destroyed: after an one hundred and fifty days a wind is sent over the earth, the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven are stopped, the waters go off gradually, and the ark rests on Mount Ararat, Ge 8:1-4 two months and thirteen days after that the tops of the mountains were seen, Ge 8:5 and forty days after the appearance of them, Noah sent forth first a raven, and then a dove, and that a second time, to know more of the abatement of the waters, Ge 8:6-12. When Noah had been in the ark ten months and thirteen days, he uncovered it, and the earth was dry, yet not so dry as to be fit for him to go out upon, until near two months after, Ge 8:13,14 when he had an order from God to go out of the ark, with all that were with him, which was accordingly obeyed, Ge 8:15-19 upon which he offered sacrifice by way of thankfulness for his great deliverance, which was accepted by the Lord; who promised him not to curse the earth any more, nor to drown it, but that it should remain, and as long as it did there would be the constant revolutions of the seasons of the year, and of day and night, Ge 8:20-22.