1 But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop. 2 The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped. 3 The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began 4 the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. 5 The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen. 6 Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark, 7 and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up. 8 Then he sent a dove out to see if the waters had gone down enough to expose dry ground. 9 But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out his hand, picked up the dove, and took it back into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again. 11 When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the floodwaters were mainly gone from the earth. 12 Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to him. 13 By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. 15 Then God told Noah, 16 “Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives. 17 Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.” 18 So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark. 19 All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on land—also left, each kind leaving together. 20 Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering. 21 The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done. 22 As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”
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Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Referencias cruzadas (19)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Génesis 30:22; Génesis 19:29; Salmo 136:23; Éxodo 2:24; 1 Samuel 1:19
- 2 Génesis 7:11; Mateo 8:26–27; Proverbios 8:28; Job 37:11–13; Mateo 8:9
- 3 Génesis 7:24; Génesis 7:11
- 4 2 Reyes 19:37; Isaías 37:38; Jeremías 51:27; Génesis 7:17–19
- 6 Génesis 6:16; Daniel 6:10
- 7 1 Reyes 17:4; Job 38:41; Salmo 147:9; 1 Reyes 17:6; Levítico 11:15
- 8 Cantar de los Cantares 2:14; Cantar de los Cantares 1:15; Génesis 8:10–12; Mateo 10:16; Cantar de los Cantares 2:11–12
- 9 Salmo 116:7; Mateo 11:28; Deuteronomio 28:65; Juan 16:33; Isaías 60:8
- 10 Génesis 7:4; Génesis 7:10; Salmo 40:1; Romanos 8:25; Génesis 8:12
- 11 Nehemías 8:15; Romanos 10:15; Zacarías 4:12–14
- 12 Isaías 25:9; Isaías 26:8; Isaías 30:18; Génesis 8:10; Salmo 130:5–6
- 13 Génesis 7:11
- 14 Génesis 7:13–14; Génesis 7:11
- 16 Génesis 7:13; Salmo 121:8; Zacarías 9:11; Daniel 9:25–26; Salmo 91:11
- 17 Génesis 1:22; Génesis 9:1; Salmo 107:38; Jeremías 31:27–28; Génesis 1:28
- 18 Salmo 121:8
- 20 Hebreos 13:15–16; Romanos 12:1; Génesis 22:9; Génesis 12:7–8; Levítico 11:1–47
- 21 2 Corintios 2:15; Efesios 5:2; Génesis 6:5; Jeremías 17:9; Isaías 54:9–10
- 22 Santiago 5:7; Jeremías 5:24; Salmo 74:16–17; Jeremías 31:35; Cantar de los Cantares 2:11–12
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And the waters decreased continually until the eleventh month: on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen." But if the months were such as we have, then so were the years.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For so with respect to the ark likewise, it is said, "The raven returned not till the earth was dried up." And yet it did not return even after that time.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And the sacrifice of the Greeks was rejected and condemned, but the sacrifice of the just was very acceptable to God. For Noah sacrificed, and God smelled a sweet savour, receiving the fragrance of the right choice and good-will towards Him.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
When, then, it was sent forth, it brought an olive branch; but it had not leaves alone, it had also fruit. This, then, we ought to wish for our brethren who are baptized outside, that they may have fruit; the dove will not permit them to remain outside, but bring them back to the ark.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
After the cessation of the flood, however, He said, Go forth of the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)