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Brenton's Septuagint
Genesis 8:16
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"Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
"Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
"You and your wife, your sons, and their wives should go out of the boat.
"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you.
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Goe forth of the Arke, thou & thy wife, and thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
"You, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law may now leave the boat.
"Go out from the ark, you, your wife, your sons and your son's wives with you.
Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
"Leave the boat. You, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives should go out now.
"Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Go forth out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons wives with you.
"Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Go out of the Arke, thou and thy wyfe, and thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wyues with the.
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
Go foorth of the arke, thou, and thy wife, thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wiues with thee:
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
"Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
and seide, Go out of the schip, thou, and thi wijf, thi sones, and the wyues of thi sones with thee;
every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
"Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
"Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
"Go out of the boat, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Come forth out of the ark, - thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy song wives with thee.
Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.
"Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 7:1, Genesis 7:7, Genesis 7:13, Joshua 3:17, Joshua 4:10, Joshua 4:16-18, Psalms 91:11, Psalms 121:8, Daniel 9:25, Daniel 9:26, Zechariah 9:11, Acts 16:27, Acts 16:28, Acts 16:37-39
Reciprocal: Joshua 4:17 - Come ye up Hebrews 11:7 - prepared
Cross-References
And the Lord God said to Noe, Enter thou and all thy family into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.
On that very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.
Come out from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons’ wives with him.
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry land in the midst of Jordan; and all the children of Israel went through on dry land, until all the people had completely gone over Jordan.
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua had finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hasted and passed over.
For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.
And thou by the blood of thy covenant has sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Go forth of the ark,.... Though the earth was dry and fit to be inhabited, yet be would not go out without orders, as he had to go in; which he waited for before he would, and now he has them:
thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives, with thee: the Jewish writers z observe, that the manner of Noah and his family coming out of the ark is different from that of their going into it: when they went into it then went the men by themselves, and the women by themselves, and so continued apart in the ark, the use of the marriage bed being forbidden them, being a time of distress; but now when they came out they are coupled together, signifying that they were now free to cohabit together.
z Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. Jarchi in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated
19. ×ש×פ×× mıÌshpaÌchah, âkind, clan, family.â ש×פ×× shıÌpchaÌh, âmaid-servant; related: spread.â
20. ×××× mıÌzbeÌach, âaltar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.â
21. ×¢×× 'olaÌh, âwhole burnt-offering.â That which goes up. âStep; related: go up.â
Genesis 8:15-19
The command to leave the ark is given and obeyed. As Noah did not enter, so neither does he leave the ark, without divine direction. âThe fowl, the cattle, and the creeper.â Here, again, these three classes are specified under the general head of every living tiring. They are again to multiply on the earth. âEvery living thing.â This evidently takes the place of the cattle mentioned before. âAfter their families.â This word denotes their tribes. It is usually applied to families or clans.
Genesis 8:20-22
The offering of Noah accepted. The return to the dry land, through the special mercy of God to Noah and his house, is celebrated by an offering of thanksgiving and faith. âBuilded an altar.â This is the first mention of the altar, or structure for the purpose of sacrifice. The Lord is now on high, having swept away the garden, and withdrawn his visible presence at the same time from the earth. The altar is therefore erected to point toward his dwelling-place on high. âUnto the Lord.â The personal name of God is especially appropriate here, as he has proved himself a covenant keeper and a deliverer to Noah. âOf all clean cattle, and every clean fowl.â The mention of clean birds renders it probable that these only were taken into the ark by seven pairs Genesis 7:3. Every fit animal is included in this sacrifice, as it is expressive of thanksgiving for a complete deliverance. We have also here the first mention of the burnt-offering ×¢×× 'olaÌh; the whole victim, except the skin, being burned on the altar. Sacrifice is an act in which the transgressor slays an animal and offers it in whole, or in part as representative of the whole, to God. In this act he acknowledges his guilt, the claim of the offended law upon his life, and the mercy of the Lord in accepting a substitute to satisfy this claim for the returning penitent. He at the same time actually accepts the mercy of the Most High, and comes forward to plead it in the appointed way of reconciliation. The burnt-offering is the most perfect symbol of this substitution, and most befitting the present occasion, when life has been granted to the inmates of the ark amidst the universal death.
Genesis 8:21
The effect of this plea is here described. The Lord smelled the sweet savor. He accepted the typical substitute, and, on account of the sacrifice, the offerers, the surviving ancestors of the post-diluvian race. Thus, the re-entrance of the remnant of mankind upon the joys and tasks of life is inaugurated by an articulate confession of sin, a well-understood foreshadowing of the coming victim for human guilt, and a gracious acceptance of this act of faith. âThe Lord said in his heart.â It is the inward resolve of his will. The purpose of mercy is then expressed in a definite form, suited to the present circumstances of the delivered family. âI will not again curse the soil any more on account of man.â This seems at first sight to imply a mitigation of the hardship and toil which man was to experience in cultivating the ground Genesis 3:17. At all events, this very toil is turned into a blessing to him who returns from his sin and guilt, to accept the mercy, and live to the glory of his Maker and Saviour. But the main reference of the passage is doubtless to the curse of a deluge such as what was now past. This will not be renewed. âBecause the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth.â This is the reason for the past judgment, the curse upon the soil: not for the present promise of a respite for the future. Accordingly, it is to be taken in close connection with the cursing of the soil, of which it assigns the judicial cause. It is explanatory of the preceding phrase, on account of man. The reason for the promise of escape from the fear of a deluge for the future is the sacrifice of Noah, the priest and representative of the race, with which the Lord is well pleased. The closing sentence of this verse is a reiteration in a more explicit form of the same promise. âNeither will I again smite all living as I have done.â There will be no repetition of the deluge that had just overswept the land and destroyed the inhabitants.
Genesis 8:22
Henceforth all the days of the earth. - After these negative assurances come the positive blessings to be permanently enjoyed while the present constitution of the earth continues. These are summed up in the following terms:
| HEAT | Sowing, beginning in October |
| | Reaping, ending in June |
| COLD | Early fruit, in July |
| | Fruit harvest, ending in September |
The cold properly occupies the interval between sowing and reaping, or the months of January and February. From July to September is the period of heat. In Palestine, the seedtime began in October or November, when the wheat was sown. Barley was not generally sown until January. The grain harvest began early in May, and continued in June. The early fruits, such as grapes and figs, made their appearance in July and August; the full ingathering, in September and October. But the passage before us is not limited to the seasons of any particular country. Besides the seasons, it guarantees the continuance of the agreeable vicissitudes of day and night. It is probable that even these could not be distinguished during part of the deluge of waters. At all events, they did not present any sensible change when darkness reigned over the primeval abyss.
The term of this continuance is here defined. It is to last as long as the order of things introduced by the six daysâ creation endures. This order is not to be sempiternal. When the race of man has been filled up, it is here hinted that the present system of nature on the earth may be expected to give place to another and a higher order of things.
Here it is proper to observe the mode of Scripture in the promise of blessing. In the infancy of mankind, when the eye gazed on the present, and did not penetrate into the future, the Lord promised the immediate and the sensible blessings of life, because these alone are as yet intelligible to the childlike race, and they are, at the same time, the immediate earnest of endless blessings. As the mind developes, and the observable universe becomes more fully comprehended, these present and sensible sources of creature happiness correspondingly expand, and higher and more ethereal blessings begin to dawn upon the mind. When the prospect of death opens to the believer a new and hitherto unknown world of reality, then the temporal and corporeal give way to the eternal and spiritual. And as with the individual, so is it with the race. The present boon is the earnest in hand, fully satisfying the existing aspirations of the infantile desire. But it is soon found that the present is always the bud of the future; and as the volume of promise is unrolled, piece by piece, before the eye of the growing race, while the present and the sensible lose nothing of their intrinsic value, the opening glories of intellectual and spiritual enjoyment add an indescribable zest to the blessedness of a perpetuated life. Let not us, then, who flow in the full tide of the latter day, despise the rudiment of blessing in the first form in which it was conferred on Noah and his descendants; but rather remember that is not the whole content of the divine good-will, but only the present shape of an ever-expanding felicity, which is limited neither by time nor sense.
