Genesis 8:1

And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

2The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

Exodus 2:24And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Numbers 22:32And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me:

Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies.

Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Job 12:15If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:1

In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another face of things begins to be presented to us, and the brighter side of that cloud which there appeared so black and dark; for, though God contend long, he will not contend for ever, nor be always wrath. We have here, I. The earth made anew, by the recess of the waters, and the appearing of the dry land, now a… Read the whole commentary →

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