Genesis 8:1

And then God thought about Noah and the animals with him in that big boat. And he made a strong wind blow on the flood water to help it to go down.

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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

2And God stopped the water from coming up from under the ground, and he stopped the rain falling from the sky.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29That’s how God finished up those towns in the flat country, but he remembered everything he said to Abraham, and he saved Abraham’s nephew Lot. Yes, God took Lot out of Sodom, where Lot lived, before he finished up that town.

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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