1 God remembers Noah, and assuages the waters.
4 The ark rests on Ararat.
6 Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove.
13 Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark.
20 He builds an altar, and offers sacrifice, which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more.

God remembered. 19:29 30:22 Ex 2:24 1Sa 1:19 Ne 13:14,22,29,31 Job 14:13 Ps 106:4 132:1 136:23 137:7 Am 8:7 Hab 3:2 Re 16:19 18:5

the cattle. Nu 22:32 Ps 36:6 Jon 4:11 Ro 8:20-22

a wind. Ex 14:21 Ps 104:7-9 Pr 25:23

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

fountains. 7:11 Pr 8:28 Jon 2:3

the rain. Job 37:11-13 38:37 Mt 8:9,26,27

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred. 7:11,24

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

the ark. 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.

2Ki 19:37 Isa 37:38 Jer 51:27

5 And 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.

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

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

opened the window. 6:16 Da 6:10

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

a raven. Le 11:15 1Ki 17:4,6 Job 38:41 Ps 147:9

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

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

a dove. 10-12 So 1:15 2:11,12,14 Mt 10:16

9 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.

found. De 28:65 Eze 7:16 Mt 11:28 Joh 16:33

and she. Ps 116:7 Isa 60:8

pulled her. Heb. caused her to come.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

stayed. Ps 40:1 Isa 8:17 26:8 Ro 8:25

seven. 12 7:4,10

11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

an olive. Ne 8:15 Zec 4:12-14 Ro 10:15

12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

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

seven. 10 2:2,3

13 And 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.

A.M. 1657. B.C. 2347. six. 7:11

14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

7:11,13,14 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.

15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

7:1,7,13 Jos 3:17 4:10,16-18 Ps 91:11 121:8 Da 9:25,26 Zec 9:11 Ac 16:27,28,37-39

17 Bring 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.

Bring. 7:14,15

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

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

Ps 121:8

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

kinds. Heb. families. 19

20 And 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.

builded. 4:4 12:7,8 13:4 22:9 26:25 33:20 35:1,7 Ex 20:24,25 24:4-8 Ro 12:1 Heb 13:10,15,16 1Pe 2:5,9

clean beast. 7:2 Le 11:1-47

burnt. Le 1:1-17

21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; 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.

smelled. Le 1:9,13,17 26:31 So 4:10,11 Isa 65:6 Eze 20:41 Am 5:21,22 2Co 2:15 Eph 5:2 Php 4:18

sweet savour. Heb. savour of rest. curse. 3:17 4:12 5:29 6:17

for. or, though. the imagination. 6:5 Job 14:4 15:14-16 Ps 51:5 58:3 Pr 20:9 Ec 7:20 Isa 47:12 Isa 47:15 48:8 53:6 Jer 8:6 17:9 18:12 Mt 15:19 Joh 3:6 Ro 1:21 3:23 8:7,8 Eph 2:1-3 Jas 1:14,15 4:1,2 1Jo 5:19

neither. 9:11-15 Isa 54:9,10

as I. 2Pe 3:6,7

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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

seed-time. 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.

45:6 Ex 34:21 Ps 74:16,17 So 2:11,12 Isa 54:9 Jer 5:24 Jas 5:7

day. Jer 31:35 33:20-26