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SOJJ: #33: Throw Your Burden on Jehovah (Psalms 55)
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Genesis 8:8-13




SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DOVES

[*] Doves have very strong wing muscles and are some of the strongest fliers in the world.

[*] Doves are excellent navigators. They use the Earth’s magnetic field and the position of the Sun to find their way.

[*] An Oxford University study also showed that they can use landmarks as signposts and will travel along man made roads and motorways, even changing direction at junctions.

[*] Domesticated pigeons are able to return to the home loft if they’re released at a location that they have never visited before.

[*] Desert dove species get their water from plants. They also have the ability to drink saline water.

[*] Male doves will bring materials needed to build a nest to the female doves, who will then build the nest.

[*] Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago.

Source : tonsoffacts.com/27-interesting-bizarre-facts-doves/

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Genesis 8:8-13

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QUESTION: [Genesis v8:6 & v8:9 say Noah sent out a raven & dove after 40 days, but the dove came back finding no land. [...] Then, in v8:10-11, he waited another 7 days for a total of 47 days [...]. Doesn’t this contradict both previous accounts of 40 days and 150 days?

No. The reader should not confuse the 40 days of rain at the beginning of the flooding with the 40 days following the appearance of the mountains as the waters receded. The Chapter 8 is written, more or less chronological order. Following the date order it reads

"In the seventh month, on the 17th day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters were steadily decreasing until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. So at the end of 40 days, Noah opened the window that he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven" Gen 8: 4-6

Notice the last date markers as being the 10th month appearance of the mountain tops. Logically then the 40 days would mean forty days after this event.


DRY or NOT DRY?

Genesis Chapter 8 [13] "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. [14]And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried" KJV.

Why does Genesis state in Chapter 8 verse 13 state that the waters "were dried up" and then in the following verse state that it wasn't until two months later that "the earth dried" ?


While many English translations (such as the King James Version quoted above) make little distinction between the condition of the ground (earth) in both verses, the verses actually use two different Hebrew words: "chareb" and "yabesh". While both can be translated to the English word "dry" they actually refer to different degrees of dryness.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, commenting on verse 13 it states "the ground or surface of the earth looked dry; but was not so dry and hard as to bear heavy bodies, or the foot to tread on it, being soft and tender, through the water so long upon it, and had left mud and slime, not yet sufficiently hardened by the wind and sun to walk upon."


Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers commenting on verse 14 states: "The word rendered “dried” at the end of this verse (14) is different from that translated “dried up” and “dry” in Genesis 8:13, and marks a further stage in the process. It should be translated, was thoroughly dry

Pulpit Commentary states (ver. 13), to be dried up, indicating the disappearance of the water (ver. 14), to be dry, denoting the desiccation [thorough drying out] of the ground.

Thus the New Word Translation reads as follows "Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was drying. 14 In the second month, on the 27th day of the month, the earth had dried off."

CONCLUSION While Noah saw in mid-september that there was no longer any water visible on the ground, it wasn't until 57 days later that that the ground became thoroughly dry.

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“The One who formed the eye, can he not see?” - Psalms 94:9

“And Jehovah began to smell a pleasing aroma. So Jehovah said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground on man’s account, for the inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up; and never again will I strike down every living thing as I have done.” - Genesis 8:21

SOJJ: #118: “Give Us More Faith” (Luke 17:5 - See also Gen. 8:21; Hebrews 11:6 ; Hebrews 12:1 )
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Genesis 8:18-21

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OSONGS: #59: I Give My Life to You
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2370 November, Flood begins: it-1 459, 609; bm 6; w03 5/15 4-5; si 286, 294
- December, downpour stops: w13 8/1 14
2369, April, ark comes to rest in Ararat: w13 8/1 14; w03 5/15 5
- June, mountaintops visible: w13 8/1 14; w03 5/15 5
- September, Noah removes part of roof: w13 8/1 14; w03 5/15 5
- November, exit from ark: w13 8/1 14; w03 5/15 5

post-Flood history begins: it-1 459-460
rainbow covenant (Ge 9:12-16): si 294

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