Genesis 8:1

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

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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

2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Exodus 2:24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Numbers 22:32The LORD’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Job 12:15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they 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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