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Genesis 8:9 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" But 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. "
Genesis 8:9
Verse in Context
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And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
But 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.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
And 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.
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Genesis 8:1
"And 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;"
Genesis 8:1
"And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down."
Genesis 8:2
"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"
Genesis 8:2
"And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped."
Genesis 8:3
"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated."
Genesis 8:4
"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."
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