Genesis 8:13-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:13-14

Here is, 1. The ground dry (Gen. 8:13), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year?s-day it was), Noah was himself an eye-witness of. He removed the covering of the ark, not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it; and a most comfortable prospect he had. For behold, behold and wonder, the face of the ground was dry. Note, (1.) It is a great mercy to see ground about us. Noah was... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:15-19

Here is, I. Noah's dismission out of the ark, Gen. 8:15-17. Observe, 1. Noah did not stir till God bade him. As he had a command to go into the ark (Gen. 7:1), so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he would wait for a command to go out of it again. Note, We must in all our ways acknowledge God, and set him before us in all our removes. Those only go under God's protection that follow God's direction and submit to his government. Those that steadily adhere to God's word as their... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 8:20-22

Here is, I. Noah's thankful acknowledgment of God's favour to him, in completing the mercy of his deliverance, Gen. 8:20. 1. He built an altar. Hitherto he had done nothing without particular instructions and commands from God. He had a particular call into the ark, and another out of it; but, altars and sacrifices being already of divine institution for religious worship, he did not stay for a particular command thus to express his thankfulness. Those that have received mercy from God should... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:13

And it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year ,.... Of Noah's life, and so the Septuagint adds, in the first month: the first day of the month ; so that it was the first day of the year, New Year's Day, and a joyful one it was to Noah and his family, when they saw dry ground; which they had not seen for above ten months: according to R. Joshua, this was the month Nisan, which was the first month with the Jews on sacred accounts; but according to R. Eliezer it was the month of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month ,.... This was the month Marchesvan, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our October, and part of our November; though according to Bishop Usher F25 Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.) , this day was Friday the eighteenth of December, A. M. 1657; it was on the seventeenth of this month that Noah went into the ark, Genesis 7:11 so that be was in it twelve months and ten days, according to a solar... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:15

And God spake unto Noah, saying ,.... Whether in a dream or vision, or by an articulate voice, appearing in an human form, or by an impulse on his mind, is not certain; however, the Lord spoke so to him, that he heard him and understood him: it was, no doubt, very rejoicing to him, since he had not heard his voice for a year or more, at least that we read of; and what he said to him was as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:16

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 F26 Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. Jarchi in loc. 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:17

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee ,.... There is a various reading of the word for "bring forth"; according to the margin, as Jarchi observes, the sense is, order them to come forth; and according to the Scripture, if they will not, oblige them to come: of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; for of each of these there were some that went with him into the ark, and continued there: that they may... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:18

And Noah went forth ,.... Being obedient to the divine command, and no doubt with great pleasure in his countenance, and with a heart full of thankfulness for so great a deliverance: and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him : in all eight persons, and no more were saved in the ark, as Peter observes, 1 Peter 3:20 and the Arabic writers say F1 Elmacleus, p. 12. Patricides, p. 10. apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 8. p. 282. , Noah and his sons built a city... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:19

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth ,.... All went out, not one was left, and they went out after their kind ; not in a confused disorderly manner, mixing with one another; but as they went in by pairs, male and female of every sort, so they came forth in like manner, or, "according to their families" F3 למשפחתיהם "juxta familias suas", Tigurine version, Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; by which it seems as if the creatures... read more

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