Genesis 8:6

_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF FORTY DAYS, THAT NOAH OPENED THE WINDOW OF THE ARK WHICH HE HAD MADE:_ At the end of forty days. He waited forty days, after the decrease of the waters, corresponding to the forty days during which the waters had increased. It is easy to imagine the ardent longing Noah and his family must have felt to enjoy again the sight of land, as well as breathe the fresh air; and it was perfectly consistent with faith and patience to make enquiries whether the earth was yet ready. OPENED THE WINDOW - [Hebrew, _ CHALOWN_ (H2474), a different word from that used in Genesis 6:16, and as it elsewhere denotes a narrow opening for the light (cf. Joshua 2:15;...

6._At the end of forty days_. We may hence conjecture with what great anxiety the breast of the holy man was oppressed. After he had perceived the ark to be resting on solid ground, he yet did not dare to open the window till the fortieth day; not because he was stunned and torpid, but because an example, thus formidable, of the vengeance of God, had affected him with such fear and sorrow combined, that being deprived of all judgment, he silently remained in the chamber of his ark. At length he sends forth a raven, from which he might receive a more certain indication of the dryness of the earth. But the raven perceiving nothing but muddy marshes, hovers around, and immediately seeks to be readmitted. I have no doubt that Noah purposely selected the ravens which he knew might be allured by the odour of carcasses, to take a further flight, if the earth, with the animals upon it, were alre...

4-12 The ark rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed by the wise and gracious providence of God, that might rest the sooner. God has times and places of rest for his people after their tossing; and many times he provides for their seasonable and comfortable settlement, without their own contrivance, and quite beyond their own foresight. God had told Noah when the flood would come, yet he did not give him an account by revelation, at what times and by what steps it should go away. The knowledge of the former was necessary to his preparing the ark; but the knowledge of the latter would serve only to gratify curiosity; and concealing it from him would exercise his faith and patience. Noah sent forth a raven from the ark, which went flying about, and feeding on the carcasses that floated. Noah then sent forth a dove, which returned the first time without good news; but the second ti...

- The Land Was Dried 1. שׁכך _shākak_ “stoop, assuage.” 3. חסר _chāsar_ “want, fail, be abated.” 4. אררט _'ărārāṭ_, “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:37, and Isaiah 37:38, as the retreat of Adrammelek and Sharezer after the murder of their father; and in Jeremiah 51:27 as a kingdom. 8. קלל _qālal_, “be light, lightened, lightly esteemed, swift.” 10. חוּל...

EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:1 AND GOD. _Elohim, i.e. God in _his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrative of the Flood (Bleek, Eichhorn, Hupfeld, Kalisch, Alford, Coleuso) is not required for a sufficient explanation of the varying use of the Divine names. REMEMBERED. From a root signifying to prick, pierce, or print, e.g; upon the memory; hence to remember. "Not that there is oblivion or forgetfulness with God, but then God is said to remember when he showeth by the effects that he hath taken care of man" (Willet). He remembers man's sins when he punishes them (Psalms 25:7; cf....

AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF FORTY DAYS,.... From the appearance of the mountains, that is, from the first day of the tenth month, to forty days after; and being ended, this must be the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the month Ab, which answers to July and August; and according to Bishop Usher k it was Friday the twenty eighth of August: THAT NOAH OPENED THE WINDOW OF THE ARK WHICH HE HAD MADE; of which Genesis 6:16. k Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.)...

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. Hebrew. _challon =_. small aperture. Compare Genesis 7:11 (not Genesis 8:2). Same as Joshua 2:18, Jos 2:21. 1 Kings 6:4.Ezekiel 40:16; Ezekiel 41:16; Ezekiel 41:26....