Genesis 8:18

_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

AND NOAH WENT FORTH,.... Being obedient to the divine command, and no doubt with great pleasure in his countenance, and with a heart full of thankfulness for so great a deliverance; AND HIS SONS, AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS SONS' WIVES WITH HIM: in all eight persons, and no more were saved in the ark, as Peter observes, 1 Peter 3:20 and the Arabic writers say a, Noah and his sons built a city near the place where they came out of the ark, and called it Themanin, giving this as a reason of the name, we are eight, that is, who have escaped; so Berosus says b, that the earth being dried of the waters, there were then only eight men in Armenia, from whence all mankind sprung. a Elmacleus, p. 12. Patricides, p. 10. apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 8. p. 282. b Hist. l. 2. fol. 11. 1....

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

Noah is commanded to leave the Ark, and to replenish the Earth. (P.)...

3. _The Disembarkation_ (Genesis 8:15-19). _15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons-' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons-' wives with him: 19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark._ (1)_ Note that Noah obeyed God in every detail._ M. Henry (CWB, 21): Noah did not stir until God bade him. Those only go under God's protection that follow God's direction and submit to his government. God had said to Noah, Come thou and