Genesis 6:8 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 6:8

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

WEB

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

YLT

And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

DBT

But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Genesis 19:19
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
Luke 1:30
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
Psalms 145:20
The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
Psalms 84:11
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

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It also magnifies his grace towards Noah that he was made a vessel of God's mercy when all mankind besides had become the generation of his wrath: distinguishing favours bring under peculiarly strong obligations.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

14 ); it was with his servants the prophets ( Amos iii. 7 ), by a spirit of revelation, informing them particularly of his purposes; it is with all believers by a spirit of wisdom and faith, enabling them to understand and apply the general declarations of the written word, and the warnings there given.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord--favor. What an awful state of things when only one man or one family of piety and virtue was now existing among the professed sons of God!

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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