1The waters abate. 4The ark resteth on Ararat. 6Noah sendeth out a raven and a dove. 13The earth is dried. 15Noah, being commanded, goeth forth of the ark. 20He buildeth an altar, and offereth sacrifice, which God accepteth, and promiseth to curse the earth no more.
1And God 1remembered 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 aasswaged;
1 Spoken of God after the manner of men; God is said to think on, or remember, when after some delay, He either exhibits His mercies, Gen. 19:29; Exod. 32:13; Neh. 13:14, 22; Job 14:13; Psalm 132:1, or executes His judgments, Hosea 9:9; Rev. 18:5.
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2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were 2stopped, and the 3rain from heaven was restrained;
2 Which before were broken up and burst forth, to execute this terrible judgment of God, Gen. 7:11.
3 Which had continued forty natural days. See Gen. 7:4, 12.
3And the waters returned from off the earth 4continually: and after the 5end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 Hebr. going and returning, that is, more and more returning and lessening. Also verse 5. Compare Gen. 26:13, and see Jonah 1 on verse 11.
5 To reckon from the beginning of the Flood. See Gen. 7:11, all which time the waters had been increasing upon the earth. See likewise Gen. 7:24.
4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, 6upon the mountains of Ararat.
6 That is, upon one of the mountains of Great Armenia.
5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the 7tops of the mountains seen.
7 Hebr. the heads. Also Deut. 3:27; Joshua 15:8; Judges 9:7.
6¶And it came to pass 8at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the 9window of the ark which he had made:
8 Namely, after the first day of the tenth month, whereof mention is made in the foregoing verse.
9 See Gen. 6:16.
7And he 10sent forth a raven, 11which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
10 Namely, to discover whether the earth was cleared of the waters.
11 Hebr. went forth going forth and turning, that is, flew hither and thither, and especially about the ark, the earth being for the most part yet covered with the waters.
8Also he 12sent forth a 13dove from him, to see if the waters 14were abated from off the face of the ground;
12 To wit, seven days after the raven had been let forth, as is to be seen verse 10.
13 One that does not easily abandon its companion, but is wont to return still to the same.
14 That is, more lessened, further abated.
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 15the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
15 Upon the flat country thereabouts. For, otherwise the tops of the mountains had begun to be discovered, verse 5.
10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he 16sent forth the dove out of the ark;
16 Hebr. be added, or continued to let forth, or to send. Which kind of speaking we find likewise in verses 12, 21 and elsewhere, frequently signifying, the doing of a thing over again and the renewing or repeating of the same.
11And the dove 17came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her 18mouth was 19an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
17 Seeing she found no food for herself, and sought to be in her ordinary nest.
18 Or, beak. Hebr. mouth.
19 Whereby God comforted Noah, assuring him, that his deliverance out of the ark was near at hand.
12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; 20which returned not again unto him any more.
20 Having now found both rest and food for herself upon the earth.
13¶And it came to pass 21in 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, 22the face of the ground was dry.
21 Namely, of the age of Noah, which was the year 1657 after the world’s creation. Compare Gen. 7:11, where it is said, that the flood began in the year 600 of Noah’s age.
22 Hebr. the face of the ground.
14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15¶And God spake unto Noah, saying,
1623Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
23 This command Noah had waited for, as likewise he had gone into the ark on God’s command, having continued in the same one year and ten days.
17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of 24cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; thatb they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
24 See Gen. 6 on verse 7.
b Gen. 1:22, 28; 9:1.
18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, 25after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
25 That is, they went very orderly, each coupled according to its sort or kind.
20¶And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every 26cleanc beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt 27offerings on the altar.
26 See Gen. 7:2.
c Leviticus 11.
27 So named of being burned altogether, and rising up with the smoke, till it was quite consumed; in which regard it might likewise be called a Rise offering: See also Lev. 6 on verse 9.
21And the LORD 28smelled a 29sweet savour; and the LORD said 30in his heart, I will not again curse 31the ground any more for man’s sake; 32ford the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;e neither will I again 33smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
28 Spoken of God after the manner of men, or comparatively; for, even as a pleasant smell much recreates a man, so God took singular delight in the faith and thankfulness of Noah.
29 Hebr. savor of rest, or, rest-causing, namely, reconciling man with God, and settling him in rest and peace, not by the proper virtue of the offering, but through the signified offering of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby only there has been purchased an everlasting reconciliation, Heb. 9:12, 13.
30 Or, to, that is, by Himself; spoken of Him after a human manner, to declare unto us that He reveals His counsel, which He has of Himself, to His servants thereafter according to His own pleasure.
31 That is, I will no more destroy the world thus, by a general inundation. Hebr. I will no more cause to curse. Also in the end of this verse. See verse 10.
32 Other, howbeit.
d Gen. 6:5; Prov. 22:15; Mat. 15:19.
e Prov. 22:15.
33 That is, smite by a general deluge. The word smite, among other significations, is sometimes taken for to slay or kill, or differently, to damage life somewhat, by what means so ever the same may be brought to pass. See Exod. 21:18; Num. 14:12; 35:16; Deut. 28:22, 27; 1 Sam. 17:50; 26:8; 2 Sam. 3:27; 1 Kings 22:34; Amos 4:9, etc.
22Whilef34the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
f Jer. 33:20, 25.
34 That is, as long as the world shall stand.