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| 1 And God remembered Noah, and all the wild-beasts, and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark,–and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided; |
With him In the ark – Type of Christ and the power in him which will replenish and reorganize society. A318
God made a wind – Ruach, spirit, invisible power, as in man. E174
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| 2 and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens,–and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens; |
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| 3 and the waters returned from off the earth, they went on returning,–and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days. |
The 150 days – Reasonable and in harmony with scientific investigation. R5159:5
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| 4 And the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,–on the mountains of Ararat. |
Rested – The administration of God was changed, but the earth remained. R10:2
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| 5 But, the waters, went on decreasing, until the tenth month,–in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, were seen the tops of the mountains. |
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| 6 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made; |
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| 7 and sent forth a raven,–and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters from off the earth. |
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| 8 And he sent forth a dove from him,–to see whether the waters had abated, from off the face of the ground; |
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| 9 but the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, so she returned unto him into the ark, for, waters, were on the face of all the earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him, into the ark. |
Found no rest – It will take a certain time, after the time of trouble, to bring in God's favor of peace and blessing. R5328:2
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| 10 Then stayed he yet seven days more,–and, again, sent forth the dove, out of the ark. |
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| 11 And the dove came in unto him at eventide, and lo! a newly sprouted olive-leaf, in her mouth,–so Noah knew that the waters had abated from off the earth. |
Was an olive leaf – Symbol of peace. D651
Indicating that the blessing of the Lord was bringing vegetation. R5328:3
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| 12 And he stayed yet seven days more,–and sent forth the dove, but she returned not again unto him any more. |
Returned not again – Picturing the end of the trouble and the full inauguration of the new dispensation. R5328:3
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| 13 So it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from off the earth,–and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and lo! the face of the ground was dried. |
And first year – Noah having just completed 600 full years. R2059:2
The first day – Illustrating the accuracy of Bible chronology. B43
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| 14 And, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, was the earth dry. |
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| 15 So then, God spake to Noah, saying: |
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| 16 Come forth, out of the ark,–thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives, with thee. |
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| 17 All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh, among birds, and among beasts, and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring forth with thee,–and they shall swarm in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply, on the earth. |
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| 18 So Noah came forth,–and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives, with him: |
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| 19 All the living creatures, all that move along, and all birds, and all that moveth along over the earth–by their families, came forth out of the ark. |
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| 20 And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh,–and took of all the clean beasts, and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending sacrifices to go up on the altar. |
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| 21 And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground, for man's sake, although, the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth,–neither will I, again, any more, smite every living thing, as I have done. |
The LORD smelled – Ruach, exercised invisible power, spirit. E174
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| 22 During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. |
Earth remaineth – "The earth abideth forever." (Eccl. 1:4). PD18/26
Seedtime and harvest – Flowers and vegetation will die and revive perennially. R2640:6
Shall not cease – But will be everlasting reminders to mankind of their deliverance from sin and death. R2640:6
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