Chapter 8

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God remembered Gen 19:29, Gen 30:22; Exod 2:24; 1Sam 1:19; Neh 13:14, Neh 13:22, Neh 13:29, Neh 13:31; Job 14:13; Ps 106:4, Ps 132:1, Ps 136:23, Ps 137:7; Amos 8:7; Hab 3:2; Rev 16:19, Rev 18:5

the cattle Num 22:32; Ps 36:6; Jonah 4:11; Rom 8:20-22

a wind Exod 14:21; Ps 104:7-9; Prov 25:23


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fountains Gen 7:11; Prov 8:28; Jonah 2:3

the rain Job 37:11-13, Job 38:37; Matt 8:9, Matt 8:26-27


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continually Heb. in going and returning

hundred Gen 7:11, Gen 7:24


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the ark Gen 7:17-19

seventh month That is, of the year, not of the deluge.

Ararat Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested. 2Kgs 19:37; Isa 37:38; Jer 51:27


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decreased continually Heb. were in going and decreasing, the tenth. Gen 7:11


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opened the window Gen 6:16; Dan 6:10


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a raven Lev 11:15; 1Kgs 17:4, 1Kgs 17:6; Job 38:41; Ps 147:9

went forth to and fro Heb. in going forth and returning


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a dove Gen 8:10-12; Song 1:15, Song 2:11-12, Song 2:14; Matt 10:16


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found Deut 28:65; Ezek 7:16; Matt 11:28; John 16:33

and she Ps 116:7; Isa 60:8

pulled her Heb. caused her to come


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stayed Ps 40:1; Isa 8:17, Isa 26:8; Rom 8:25

seven Gen 8:12, Gen 7:4, Gen 7:10


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an olive Neh 8:15; Zech 4:12-14; Rom 10:15


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And he Ps 27:14, Ps 130:5-6; Isa 8:17, Isa 25:9, Isa 26:8, Isa 30:18; Hab 2:3; Jas 5:7-8

seven Gen 8:10, Gen 2:2-3


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am 1657, bc 2347

six Gen 7:11


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Gen 7:11, Gen 7:13-14; From this, it appears, that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the 600th year of his life, and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month, in the 601st year of his life, as we see above.


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Gen 7:1, Gen 7:7, Gen 7:13; Josh 3:17, Josh 4:10, Josh 4:16-18; Ps 91:11, Ps 121:8; Dan 9:25-26; Zech 9:11; Acts 16:27-28, Acts 16:37-39


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Bring Gen 7:14-15

breed Gen 1:22, Gen 9:1, Gen 9:7; Ps 107:38, Ps 144:13-14; Jer 31:27-28


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Ps 121:8


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kinds Heb. families, Gen 8:19


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builded Gen 4:4, Gen 12:7-8, Gen 13:4, Gen 22:9, Gen 26:25, Gen 33:20, Gen 35:1, Gen 35:7; Exod 20:24-25, Exod 24:4-8; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:10, Heb 13:15-16; 1Pet 2:5, 1Pet 2:9

clean beast Gen 7:2; Lev 11:1-47

burnt Lev 1:1-17


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smelled Lev 1:9, Lev 1:13, Lev 1:17, Lev 26:31; Song 4:10-11; Isa 65:6; Ezek 20:41; Amos 5:21-22; 2Cor 2:15; Eph 5:2; Phil 4:18

sweet savour Heb. savour of rest

curse Gen 3:17, Gen 4:12, Gen 5:29, Gen 6:17

for or, though

the imagination Gen 6:5; Job 14:4, Job 15:14-16; Ps 51:5, Ps 58:3; Prov 20:9; Eccl 7:20; Isa 47:12; Isa 47:15, Isa 48:8, Isa 53:6; Jer 8:6, Jer 17:9, Jer 18:12; Matt 15:19; John 3:6; Rom 1:21, Rom 3:23, Rom 8:7-8; Eph 2:1-3; Jas 1:14-15, Jas 4:1-2; 1John 5:19

neither Gen 9:11-15; Isa 54:9-10

as I 2Pet 3:6-7


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While the earth remaineth Heb. as yet all the days of the earth, Isa 54:8

seedtime Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man. Gen 45:6; Exod 34:21; Ps 74:16-17; Song 2:11-12; Isa 54:9; Jer 5:24; Jas 5:7

day Jer 31:35, Jer 33:20-26


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