The Bible Study Podcast, episode 652. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Genesis with chapter 8.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast from your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on with Genesis today.

You may remember that we left Noah and his family in the ark. It had stopped raining, but it's still

flooded, and they're still in the ark. And it continues on like this. But God remembered Noah and all the

wild animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark,

and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of heaven had been closed, and the rain had stopped

falling from the sky.

The water receded steadily from the earth.

At the end of the 150 days, the water had gone down,

and on the 70th day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

The waters continued to recede until the 10th month, and on the first day of the 10th month,

the tops of the mountains became visible. After 40 days, Noah opened a

window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the

water had dried up from the earth. He then sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the

surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was

water over all the surface of the earth, so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand

and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again

sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked

olive leaf.

Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return

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