Genesis 8

King James Version · 22 verses · 312 cross-references linking it to 182 other chapters

1. 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;45 cross-references: Genesis 30:22, Genesis 19:29, Exodus 2:24, 1 Samuel 1:19, Psalms 136:23
2. 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;8 cross-references: Genesis 7:11, Matthew 8:26–27, Job 37:11–13, Proverbs 8:28, Jonah 2:3
3. 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.3 cross-references: Genesis 7:24, Genesis 7:11
4. 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.8 cross-references: Isaiah 37:38, 2 Kings 19:37, Jeremiah 51:27, Genesis 7:17–19
5. 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.2 cross-references: Genesis 7:11
6. 6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:3 cross-references: Genesis 6:16, Daniel 6:10
7. 7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.7 cross-references: 1 Kings 17:6, 1 Kings 17:4, Leviticus 11:15, Job 38:41, Psalms 147:9
8. 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;7 cross-references: Song of Solomon 2:14, Genesis 8:10–12, Song of Solomon 2:11–12, Matthew 10:16, Song of Solomon 1:15
9. 9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.9 cross-references: Psalms 116:7, Matthew 11:28, John 16:33, Deuteronomy 28:65, Isaiah 60:8
10. 10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;13 cross-references: Genesis 7:4, Romans 8:25, Isaiah 26:8, Genesis 7:10, Isaiah 8:17
11. 11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.4 cross-references: Nehemiah 8:15, Zechariah 4:12–14, Romans 10:15
12. 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.13 cross-references: Isaiah 30:18, Isaiah 25:9, Isaiah 26:8, Genesis 8:10, Genesis 2:2–3
13. 13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.2 cross-references: Genesis 7:11
14. 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.2 cross-references: Genesis 7:13–14, Genesis 7:11
15. 15And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16. 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.14 cross-references: Genesis 7:13, Psalms 121:8, Genesis 7:7, Joshua 3:17, Joshua 4:10
17. 17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.19 cross-references: Genesis 1:22, Jeremiah 31:27–28, Genesis 9:1, Psalms 107:38, Genesis 1:28
18. 18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:2 cross-references: Psalms 121:8
19. 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20. 20And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.39 cross-references: Hebrews 13:15–16, Genesis 22:9, Romans 12:1, 1 Peter 2:9, Leviticus 11:1–47
21. 21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.91 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 2:15, Ephesians 5:2, Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 54:9–10, Genesis 6:5
22. 22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.24 cross-references: James 5:7, Psalms 74:16–17, Jeremiah 5:24, Song of Solomon 2:11–12, Jeremiah 31:35

Explained connections

• The dove after the waters Genesis 8:11 and Mark 1:10

  After the flood a dove returns to Noah with an olive leaf, a sign of a renewed world. The dove at Jesus' baptism has long been read as signalling a fresh start for creation.

Chapters most linked to Genesis 8

• Genesis 721 links
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• Genesis 99 links
• Leviticus 18 links
• Genesis 66 links
• Exodus 295 links
• Nehemiah 134 links
• Psalms 1044 links
• Job 384 links
• Genesis 224 links
• Romans 83 links
• 1 Samuel 13 links
• Job 143 links
• Jeremiah 513 links
• Leviticus 113 links
• Song of Solomon 23 links

People in Genesis 8

Noah, God

Places in Genesis 8

Ararat

Hard questions about Genesis 8

• Did human wickedness move God to destroy mankind, or to promise never to do so again?
• If seedtime and harvest were never to cease, how could there be seven years of famine?
• Did the flood last forty days or 150 days?
• How could the ark come to rest in the seventh month when the mountain tops were not seen until the tenth?
• Was the earth dry after the flood on the first day of the first month, or on the twenty-seventh day of the second?
• Did God promise never again to curse the ground, or does he still threaten to strike the earth with a curse?
• Did the sun stand still for Joshua, when day and night were never to cease?

Archaeology

• Gilgamesh flood tablet 7th century BC