Genesis 8:16

_GO FORTH OF THE ARK, THOU, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SONS, AND THY SONS' WIVES WITH THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

13-19 God consults our benefit, rather than our desires; he knows what is good for us better than we do for ourselves, and how long it is fit our restraints should continue, and desired mercies should be delayed. We would go out of the ark before the ground is dried; and perhaps, if the door, is shut, are ready to thrust off the covering, and to climb up some other way; but God's time of showing mercy is the best time. As Noah had a command to go into the ark, so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he would wait for a command to go out of it again. We must in all our ways acknowledge God, and set him before us in all our removals. Those only go under God's protection, who follow God's direction, and submit to him....

- XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated 19. משׁפחה _mı̂shpāchah_, “kind, clan, family.” שׁפחה _shı̂pchâh_, “maid-servant; related: spread.” 20. מזבח _mı̂zbēach_, “altar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.” 21. עלה _'olâh_, “whole burnt-offering.” That which goes up. “Step; related: go up.” Genesis 8:15 The command to leave the ark is given and obeyed. As Noah did not enter, so neither does he leave the ark, without divine direction. “The fowl, the cattle, and the creeper.” Here, again, these three classes are specified under the general head of every living tiring. They are again to multiply on the earth. “Every living t

EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:15-1 AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, SAYING, GO FORTH OF THE ARK. For which command doubtless the patriarch waited, as he had done for instructions to enter in (Genesis 7:11), "being restrained by a hallowed modesty from allowing himself to enjoy the bounty of nature till he should hear the voice of God directing him to do so" (Calvin). THOU, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SONS, AND THY SONS' WIVES WITH THEE. The order is different, in Genesis 7:7_, _whence Ambrose noteth, "non commiscetur sexus in introitu, sod commiscetur in ingressu." BRING FORTH WITH THEE—God having preserved alive the creatures that a twelvemonth before ha

GO FORTH OF THE ARK,.... Though the earth was dry and fit to be inhabited, yet be would not go out without orders, as he had to go in; which he waited for before he would, and now he has them: THOU AND THY WIFE, AND THY SONS, AND THY SONS' WIVES, WITH THEE: the Jewish writers z observe, that the manner of Noah and his family coming out of the ark is different from that of their going into it: when they went into it then went the men by themselves, and the women by themselves, and so continued apart in the ark, the use of the marriage bed being forbidden them, being a time of distress; but now when they came out they are coupled together, signifying that they were now free to cohabit together. z Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. Jarchi in loc....

Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you have been shut out from the world now for many days, but God has not forgotten you. God remembered Noah, and he remembers you. Genesis 8:1. _And every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark:_ Does God remember cattle? Then he will certainly remember men made in his own image He will remember you, though you think yourself the most worthless one on the face of the earth: «God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark.» Genesi

CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove (Genesis 8:8) 5. The waters dried up (Genesis 8:13) 6. The command to leave the ark (Genesis 8:15) 7. Noah's obedience (Genesis 8:18) 8. The altar and the covenant

The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis 8:6 we resume J's story; after the forty days-' rain, he means, Noah sends forth a raven. This went to and fro till the waters abated, because being an unclean carrion bird it could alight on the floating trees or corpses and eat the latter. Then after seven days (as may be inferred from yet other seven days in Genesis 8:10) he sent forth a dove, but since it found no foothold to rest on, it quickly returned

WINDOW SHALT THOU MAKE TO THE ARK. This account of the window has been puzzling to the commentators. The most probable idea is that it was, not. single window, but. window system. Gesenius says that the word means window course, or set of windows--a system of lighting--and translates: "A window system shalt thou make to the ark, and in. cubit shalt thou finish them from above;" that is, they shall be placed. cubit below the decks or floors. It is quite possible that there was. window course to each story,. cubit below the ceiling or floor. Others have held that "in. cubit shalt thou finish it above" does not refer to the windows at all, but to the deck, or roof, which was to be raised. cubit in the center, so as to give. slope. From the general description we gather that the ark was. great building, over 500 feet long, 80 wide, and 60 high, with windows for the entrance of light near the...

GO FORTH. Hebrew. _z'e_. But in Genesis 7:1, Jehovah (from within), "Come thou". Hebrew. _b'o._ Compare Genesis 7:1....