Category Archives: Genesis

Sending out

Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the … Continue reading

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God Remembered

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and 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 … Continue reading

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Faith and Floods

  The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. – Genesis 7:24 (NIV) The verses that precede this verse describe the complete annihilation of the people and creatures of earth except Noah’s family and the animals on the … Continue reading

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High water mark

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.  The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of … Continue reading

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The Flood Revisited

And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month–on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the … Continue reading

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God’s Rain

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. Noah was six hundred … Continue reading

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Water as punishment

By Italian painter Domenico Morelli (1823-1901). So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the … Continue reading

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Eden

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Cole Thomas “A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is … Continue reading

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Streams came up…

Thunder River in the Grand Canyon “and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no … Continue reading

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Rule over – but do it prayerfully

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”   So … Continue reading

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