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  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 8 - 1 year ago
    Hello Deborah. I had to do a little research on the Gobekli Tepe & from it I learned that there are a couple of reasons why it cannot be associated with the altar that Noah built ( Genesis 8:20). This Noahic altar would have been very primitive, using the material in the area to construct something large enough to sacrifice several clean beasts & fowls. Whereas the ruins of the Gobekli Tepe indicate it was once an elaborate temple, with its scattered building blocks covering an extended area. I doubt whether Noah would have wanted to construct an 'altar' so large so as to be used for worship as well. It seemed more likely that he wanted to speedily offer sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD Who brought him, his family & animals through the deluge.

    Secondly, when placing both Mt. Ararat & the Gobekli Tepe on a map, I find that Ararat is at the very eastern edge of present day Turkey, bordering Iran & Armenia. Whereas, the Gobekli Tepe was located & examined six miles from Urfa at the southern end of Turkey, near the Syrian border. Without using a scale, my guess is that the distance would be approx. 420 miles between the two. So this also might prove that Noah would not have travelled this distance or more, with the absence of roads, to build an altar.

    Do you have any compelling evidence to the contrary? Or maybe others have thoughts on this.
  • T. Levis - In Reply - 2 years ago
    I've heard it explained it was a perversion thing. Note they were adults, Genesis 6:18, Genesis 7:7,13, Genesis 8:16,18,

    Genesis 9:22, honestly ask yourself would you go tell others? Or cover? Who showed their father honor? Genesis 9:23

    Noah, "knew what his younger son had done to him." Genesis 9:24, it wasn't that he just saw.

    There's additional information, to help readers understand, Genesis 9:18, Genesis 9:22, Genesis 9:25, Genesis 10:15, note Canaan, 1st recorded rape of a girl Genesis 33:18, Genesis 34:1-2, & Sodom & Gomorrah, Genesis 10:19, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 18:20, Genesis 18, Gen. 19,

    Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 23:14, Ezekiel 16:49, Jude 1:7, it appears to point to a root of evil started with that person.

    Hopefully this is helpful
  • T Levis - In Reply on 2 Timothy 4 - 2 years ago
    As opposed to what? Destroying the evil? Genesis 6:5-6,11,12, He did that in Noah's day: Genesis 6:7-9, Genesis chapters 6-9,

    Genesis 8:21-22, Gen. 9:9-17, therefore HE made a covenant of mercy. Yet HE also makes promises of giving an "account"

    Genesis 9:5-6, Psalms 37, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 12:9, Hebrews 10:30, Jude 1:7,

    It's like this Genesis: GOD gave dominion to man over the Earth, including sea. Gen. 1:28, It's a ' stewardship ' that all men will give an account for. Matthew 25:31-46, yet the Earth still belongs to GOD : 1Corinthains 10:26,

    GOD gave Moses a set of "Best Laws" That if people obeyed, would cut down on suffering. Instead many have rebelliously rejected, mocked & ignored & refusal to enforce. Whose then to blame for suffering in consequence? Proverbs 3:27,

    I think it amazing that GOD intervenes on our behalf so many times. Exodus 3:9, Psalms 12:5,

    & ultimately gave us Salvation John 3:16-18, Ecclesiastes 5:8,

    Hopefully this is helpful
  • Donna - In Reply on 2 Peter 3 - 2 years ago
    (BEGIN QUOTE) From got questions. orgs website:

    This question is usually framed something like this: "Does the Bible say that in the last days, you will not be able to know the seasons except by the changing of the leaves?"

    We had been asked this question many times and had done extensive research into its origin, but had never been able to find the source of the idea.

    Recently, someone helped us find the origin of the concept. Evidently, it comes from the "3 Days of Darkness" prophecy of Padre Pio, a Roman Catholic priest. The exact quote appears to be, "You will know when that time is approaching because the seasons will change so the only way you will know the seasons is by the leaves on the trees." (END QUOTE)

    I used to Believe that also until recently when I looked for it and could not find it in the Bible. I did find Genesis 8:22.
  • S Spencer - In Reply on Romans 2 - 2 years ago
    Hi BMW.

    Part 6.

    EVIDENCE OF DIVINE CONCERN FOR THE GENTILES. Continued.

    (1) The practice of offering sacrifices as atonement, typically foreshadowing the coming of Jesus, apparently was a human requirement from the very commencement of history. Abel, son of Adam and Eve, brought the "firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof" ( Genesis 4:4). The offering must have been killed, otherwise he could not have presented the fat, which was the best part. Moreover, we are told that "righteous Abel" (so designated by Jesus [ Matthew 23:35]) offered his sacrifice "by faith" ( Hebrews 11:4), which, in the overall context of this chapter, clearly is an objective faith grounded in revelation, and not that which was subjectively whimsical.

    When Noah departed from the ark after the waters of the flood subsided, he built an altar and offered sacrifices of every clean animal and bird, and Jehovah was pleased with his offering ( Genesis 8:20-21). What compelled him to do such?

    Melchizedek, whom Abraham encountered on his return from the rescue of his nephew, was designated by Moses as a "priest of God Most High" ( Genesis 14:18). A priest is an appointed servant who officiates in the offering of sacrifices to atone for sin. The modernistic notion that Melchizedek was merely the "high god" priest of the Canaanites (e.g., Baal), worshipped in pre-Israelite Jerusalem, is absurd (Hicks 1962, 343). God would hardly have chosen a Baal-worshipper to be a type, prophetically previewing his Son ( Hebrews 7:3). See also Leupold (1942, 463).

    (2) The entire world population was one in kind prior to the call of Abraham. He was the first to be designated a Hebrew ( Genesis 14:13). The Hebrews were not set apart as a distinct people until the giving of the law of Moses ( Exodus 19:5-6; cf. Ephesians 2:14). It is wholly unrealistic not to recognize that God's love for the Gentiles was a part of the ancient world.

    See Part 7 of 7!
  • Roni on Genesis 8 - 2 years ago
    Genesis 8:13, states that Noah removed the covering of the Ark. Would like to know what this covering was ???
  • Chris - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Hello Edna. Maybe you're thinking of this saying: "You can't tell winter from summer except by the budding of the trees?"

    This is actually a misquoted reference to Matthew 24:32, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh". In this verse, we read that Jesus was making a point about the time of His Return - to look for the signs around them, just as they would look for the sign of the first shoots, indicating the onset of Summer. So please don't wrack your brains on this, since what you have heard before is really a misquote of Jesus' Words & has nothing to do with the mixing up, or amalgamation of the seasons.

    And I also think of Genesis 8:22 that may help you: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." And this is God's Promise for the continuation of our seasons while the Earth exists in its present state.
  • Kent Bass - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Edna Gilbert, Yah has ordained everything for its proper time and season. Even the lack thereof of the seasons. Remember we had an ice age and also a Neoproterozoic age. The earth goes through cycles. In Yah's word he says that the seasons in general shall not come to an end.

    Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
  • Ronald L Whittemore - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Hey James,

    In Genesis 8:20-21 Noah offered burnt offerings on the altar of every clean beast and every clean fowl to God. The Burnt Offering, Olah in Hebrew, is the oldest sacrifice, we see it later the daily sacrifice, the Tamid. The burnt offering was the only offering that was entirely burned, all is given to God. Were there only two of each animal went in the ark? Genesis 7:1-3

    In Genesis 3:21 when God clothed Adam and Eve with coats of skin is a shadow of the sacrifice of Jesus and when we accept this gift we are clothed with the garment of salvation, the robe of righteousness, white and spotless. Isaiah 61:10 As God did for Adam and Eve this garment covers our sins that we may not walk naked and our shame shall be seen, Revelation 3:4 Revelation 16:15.

    God made a covenant with Noah and all living creatures that He would not destroy the world with water ever again and symbolized it with a rainbow. God gave a commandment to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, we see later they did not obey (the tower of Babel). All animals and creatures would fear man.

    This is the first time in scripture where God gives the penalty for murder. The penalty for taking a life is the death of the murderer. When the life of a person is taken. God will require the punishment of death, whether the one who kills a person is a man or an animal. You will find this in Genesis 9.

    God bless,

    RLW
  • Chris - In Reply - 2 years ago
    Hello Neil. The Bible doesn't disclose where Noah lived or where the Ark was built. We do know according to Genesis 8:4, that the Ark finally rested, after the flood, on "the mountains of Ararat". We do know where these are: the far eastern end of present day Turkey, near Armenia. And we also know that whole region from North to South was referred to as Mesopotamia (now encompassing present day Iraq & Turkey). So, even with uncertainty, it is commonly held that Noah was living in Mesopotamian region during that time & very likely quite some distance from Ararat (as the Ark was drifting, without sail or rudder, for about five months). But exactly where, no one can be certain.
  • WHATYEAR DID THE ARK OF NOAH MAKE LANDFALL - In Reply on Leviticus 9 - 2 years ago
    You're going to have to do some fancy googling; maybe read some Hebrew history. You can hang out or check tomorrow; CHRIS may already know that date.

    Genesis 6:9

    These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

    Genesis 7:13

    In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

    Genesis 5:32

    And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

    Genesis 7:9

    There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

    Isaiah 54:9

    For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

    Genesis 9:28

    And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

    Genesis 7:6

    And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

    Genesis 7:11

    In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

    Genesis 8:13

    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.

    Genesis 10:1

    Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
  • The Messenger - In Reply - 2 years ago
    *Jehovah is a invisible Spirit.

    To illustrate:

    God is not a physical or literal wind, because he created

    Wind for the earth. But his Spirit is like the wind (Example: Genesis 8:1). It moves to serve his purpose.- John 4:24; Genesis 1:1,2; * Psalm 83:18
  • NOAHS LONG LIFE - In Reply on Genesis 11 - 2 years ago
    Mishael comment: The verses show Noah's age during Bible events. I didn't show them, but Noah made sacrifices upon an altar to God; worshipping God in a time of gross sin. He was human and subject to the aging process.

    I believe there is a prophetic reason why Enoch and Elijah were taken to heaven without seeing physical death. And... we will be witnesses of that reason.

    Genesis 6:8

    But Noah found GRACE in the eyes of the LORD.

    Genesis 6:22

    Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

    Genesis 7:6

    And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

    Genesis 8:13

    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.

    Genesis 9:28

    And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

    Genesis 9:29

    And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

    Mishael: 'Grace', means Noah had the unmerited favor of God. He didn't earn it.
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 6 - 2 years ago
    The LORD God had issued several covenants, starting with Adam. When God issued a covenant, it was essentially God telling His people that what He would utter to them would be his pledge (or, promise) that something would happen.

    In the case of Genesis 6:18, we refer to it as the Noahic Covenant. And this Covenant is found by reading from Genesis 8:20 to 9:17. We see that after the Flood had assuaged & the Ark settled on dry ground, Noah offered burnt offerings to the LORD (probably in worship & thankfulness for their preservation). And the LORD "smelled a sweet savour" from these showing His acceptance of the offering & of Noah & his family. And so the Covenant was issued.

    And this Covenant included: no further curse to the ground we walk on; that the seasons will continue, as will day & night; & the LORD will never again destroy the Earth with a flood, providing a bow (rainbow) in the sky as a token of His Pledge. And we have indeed enjoyed God's Mercies & Pledge He made to Noah. However, the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:5-11, reminds his readers that by the same Word of God that brought on the Flood that destroyed every living creature not in the Ark, so too will God once again bring destruction upon the Earth, this time not by water (according to that Pledge) but by fire. Therefore, knowing the certainty of God's Word & Promises, Peter challenges us: "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?"
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 8 - 3 years ago
    I believe you enquired about this earlier & you received a reply. But in case you missed it, "asswaged', or as it's spelt now, 'assuaged', simply means to 'make milder, to ease, to soothe, to calm. However, I think that you're referring to Genesis 8:1, in which case it means that the Flood waters began to calm down & depart, after the wind began to draw the waters away. Most likely they formed their own bodies of water that we now call oceans & seas, while that which was not covered with water, became habitable land.
  • Markcus Burch - In Reply on Genesis 8:13 - 3 years ago
    601 years of Noah's life, at that time in Genesis 8:13. If you go to the next chapter 9:29 all of the days of Noah were 950 years and he died.
  • Sj on Genesis 4 - 3 years ago
    Genesis 8:21

    "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done."

    King James Version (KJV)

    John 3:3

    "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
  • Mishael on Genesis 8 9 on John 5:43 - 3 years ago
    I read something last night just really endeared The Lord to me. It was after the flood and Noah and his family were leaving the Ark.

    I was reading & noted Genesis 8:20-22 and 9:8-17

    In verse 21-22: And the Lord Smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said IN HIS HEART, I will not again curse the GROUND anymore for mans sake, for the imaginations of mans heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore every thing living, as I have done.

    While the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat; and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. ( Jeremiah 33:25)

    The token of the covenant of is the rainbow.

    There was no anger. Sorrow in his heart.

    What hurts us, hurts him.

    How many times have we wept; why is this happening to me? Why didn't You stop it?

    How so the earth groans for it's redemption. As should we all...
  • Chris - In Reply on Exodus 20:4 - 3 years ago
    Shannon, I think that this verse is meant to show that God forbids the making of any graven image that represents any creature in His creation. If it does mean something specific, as you suggest, there could be some reference to Genesis 8:2: "The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained". And this reference mentions that at the time of Noah's drifting on the flooded Earth, God stopped the rain & the waters that came from below the Earth.

    So, if there was some type of body of water under the Earth at that time, there may be some who believed in some 'mythical' creatures also in existence there, & which could be represented as idols on Earth. So God forbad the making of any image, whether real or imaginative. All speculation on my part, of course.
  • Peter - In Reply on Genesis 2:5 - 3 years ago
    Genesis 7:4

    Genesis 7:12

    Genesis 8:2

    you seem to be and I would say that you are right on; but I don't know how long that was after Adam as I have never read the verses between Adam and that flood; and it probably does not list every generation and maybe only the relevant ones. very interesting
  • Sheila B Rice - In Reply - 4 years ago
    Genesis 8:22 View whole chapter See verse in context
    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • T Levis - In Reply on Genesis 8 - 4 years ago
    Thanks for your question.
    I have had that same question explained to me as follows :
    1) as with most of the Bible : it's good to read verses even Chapters before and after. : Genesis 7, 8
    2) In this case, the significance of the safety of Noah to return on land was in the Dove the following verse. Genesis 8:8
    I was told a raven is a perching bird & bird of prey, however a dove walks on ground like closely related pigeon. I have not studied it further.
    Hopefully this helps you as much as it helped me!
    Thank you for your thought provoking question
    Btw. Birds are referenced many times throughout the Holy Bible , that might be an intertesting subject study.
  • Shirley - In Reply - 4 years ago
    A sweet aroma/savor to the Lord, I believe speaks of a deed that is done freely because you love the Lord. It is done in faith to honor Him. It is pleasing and desired by God. Genesis 8:21, calls it a soothing aroma. It is an act of devotion, or love.
  • T Levis - In Reply - 4 years ago
    I counted about (45) in my Strongs Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible : it means
    Aroma; pleasing & acceptable:fragrance (sacrifices acceptable to God)

    Genesis 8:21
    Exodus 29:18
    Exodus 29:25
    Leviticus 1:9
    Numbers 15:3
    2 Corinthians 2:15

    Hopefully that's helpful :)
  • Kim Jackson - In Reply - 4 years ago
    Isaiah 7:14, Psalm 22"16-18, Genesis 8:1-33, Micah 5:2, Hosea 11:1
  • Bruce on Ezekiel 36 - 5 years ago
    The Heart is Deceitful above all Things and Desperately Wicked---( Jeremiah 17:9) Man does not Start with a Good Heart.---The Imagination of Man's Heart is Evil from His Youth---( Genesis 8:21) No Man can come to me Except The Father which Sent Me Draw him.( John 6:44) He will Wash Us in His Blood( Revelation 1:5)Baptize us with The Holy Ghost( Mark 1:8)---He will be a New Creature--- 2Corinthians5:17
  • Roxanne D Barrett on Genesis 8 - 7 years ago
    Genesis 8:20-21 Noah build the Altar unto the Lord,and took of every clean beast,every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings,on the altar. 21.And the Lord smelled a sweet Savor and the Lord said in his heart,I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake for the Imagination of man's heart is evil from youth neither will I again smite any more every thing, as I have done. God saw man has a heart and given him a beautiful savor he made just for God. God saw that man has a love for him and honored God, and gave it up to God. God has compassion of his people and of humanity. I thank you God! For loving us So much and given us a chances to get it right and lift us so we can live for him. Glory to God.
  • DATUS GEOFFREY ISHAKU on Genesis 8 - 7 years ago
    Today I Reseive Good Word From The Book Of Genesis 8:20- 21 And Hebrews 12:4 Topic Is The Discipline Of God
  • Sylvia on Genesis 1 - 7 years ago
    According to Warren Wiersbe Bible Commentary, One year and ten days later God open the door and invited Noah and his family to come out to live on freshly cleansed earth. ( Genesis 8:16)

    God's thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways.
  • Evangelist Chatauna Robinson on Genesis 4 - 9 years ago
    Part 2 of 3 The Law of sacrifice may not have been in place, but the act of offering was already established. As I stated before it does not say that God killed an animal to make Adam and Eve their clothes made of skin, but when it states coats of skin, the only other creatures besides humans that have skin is animals. Then when you further read where after they left the Ark how Noah built an altar you know that it was a blood offering that he would offer to God. Genesis 7 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female . The seventh beast of the clean beasts was to be the burnt offering at the altar that Noah built. Genesis 8 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar . God had male and female to procreate the species the seventh one was for an offering. This took place before the Law.


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