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Saturday, January 03, 2026

Genesis 7-9 - The Dove Found Rest in the Ark

Noah and the Flood

Gen 7:1 LSB - [1] Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you [alone] I have seen [to be] righteous before Me in this generation.

Gen 7:5 LSB - [5] And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.

Gen 7:11-12 LSB - [11] In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep split open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. [12] Then the rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Gen 7:15 LSB - [15] So they came to Noah into the ark, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Gen 7:20-23 LSB - [20] The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. [21] And all flesh that moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. [22] All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life--of all that was on the dry land--died. [23] Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark.

The Water Dries Up

Gen 8:1-3 LSB - [1] Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. [2] Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; [3] and the water receded from the earth, going [forth] and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.

Gen 8:9 LSB - [9] but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark to himself.

 
In the ark, the weary dove
Found a welcome resting–place;
Thus my spirit longs to prove
Rest in CHRIST, the ark of grace:
Tempest–tossed I long have been,
And the flood increases fast;
Open, LORD, and take me in,
Till the storm be overpast.


Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

Gen 8:20 LSB - [20] Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 

Gen 7:2 LSB - [2] "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female;

Gen 8:21-22 LSB - 
[21] And Yahweh smelled the soothing aroma; and Yahweh said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. 
[22] "While all the days of the earth [remain], 
Seedtime and harvest, 
And cold and heat, 
And summer and winter, 
And day and night 
Shall not cease."

Gen 9:1 LSB - [1] And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Gen 9:11 LSB - [11] "Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, and there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth."

Gen 9:16 LSB - [16] "So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

Noah’s Three Sons

Gen 6:10 LSB - [10] And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen 9:24-27 LSB - 
[24] Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him. 
[25] So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers." 
[26] And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. 
[27] "May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant."



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