Genesis 8:13 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 8:13

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

BSB

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ASV

And it came to pass in the six hundred 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 dried.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2373: “The Weary Dove's Return” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1894)

NOAH knew that God would, in due time, let him out of the ark. He was quite sure that the Lord had not put him into the ark to make a great coffin of it—that he and all those living creatures that went in with him should perish there. And, because he believed in God, he, therefore, removed the covering of the ark and looked abroad, expecting, by-and-by, to see not only the tops of the mountains, but also a dry and green earth once more. True faith often goes to the window.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Noah removed the covering of the ark - Not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it: and behold the face of the ground was dry.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

For behold, behold and wonder, the face of the ground was dry. Note, (1.) It is a great mercy to see ground about us. Noah was more sensible of it than we are; for mercies restored are much more affecting than mercies continued.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽ֠יְהִי	Vay.hi	and it was	H1961 →
בְּאַחַ֨ת	be.'a.Chat	in one	H259 →
וְשֵׁשׁ־	ve.shesh-	and six	H8337 →
מֵא֜וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
שָׁנָ֗ה	sha.Nah	year	H8141 →
בָּֽרִאשׁוֹן֙	ba.ri.shOn	in the first [month]	H7223 →
בְּאֶחָ֣ד	be.'e.Chad	on [day] one	H259 →
לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ	la.Cho.desh	of the month	H2320 →
חָֽרְב֥וּ	cha.re.Vu	they were dried up	H2717 →
הַמַּ֖יִם	ha.Ma.yim	the waters	H4325 →
מֵעַ֣ל	me.'Al	from on	H5921 →
הָאָ֑רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
וַיָּ֤סַר	vai.Ya.sar	and he removed	H5493 →
נֹ֙חַ֙	no.ach	Noah	H5146 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
מִכְסֵ֣ה	mikh.Seh	[the] covering of	H4372 →
הַתֵּבָ֔ה	ha.te.Vah	the ark	H8392 →
וַיַּ֕רְא	vai.Yar'	and he saw	H7200 →
וְהִנֵּ֥ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
חָֽרְב֖וּ	cha.re.Vu	they were dried up	H2717 →
פְּנֵ֥י	pe.Nei	[the] surface of	H6440 →
הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃	Ha.'a.da.Mah	the ground	H127 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
leads to
- Genesis 8:2
  The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Proverbs 8:28–29
  when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- Malachi 3:10
  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of…
- Amos 9:5–6
  The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
- Psalms 78:23–24
  Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

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