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Tablet Twenty-Two
Chapter 8
"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;" (Genesis 8:1)
<1>The process of destruction of those corrupted souls was finished and now the preparation was beginning for the new generation to assume possession of the earth.
"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;" (Genesis 8:2)
<2>"Fountains of the deep" refer to the melted ice of the poles.
"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated." (Genesis 8:3)
<3>The waters started to go back to the places they were before (frozen at the two poles and vapor in the sky).
"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." (Genesis 8:4)
"And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen." (Genesis 8:5)
<4>The ark rested on Mount Ararat. <5>The new generation was saved. A new earth with a new environment was prepared for them to live on. Now God would further make the earth ready for them to spread over.
"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:" (Genesis 8:6)
"And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth." (Genesis 8:7)
"Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;" (Genesis 8:8)
"But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark." (Genesis 8:9)
"And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;" (Genesis 8:10)
"And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth." (Genesis 8:11)
"And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more." (Genesis 8:12)
"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 8:13)
<6>Now the new generation could come out of their shelter and inhabit the new earth with its new climate which suited them.
"And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried." (Genesis 8:14)
<7>The earth became ready and refined for the new humans.
"And God spake unto Noah, saying," (Genesis 8:15)
"Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee." (Genesis 8:16)
<8>Now God saw that the new humans were ready to go forward and take over the earth.
"Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth." (Genesis 8:17)
<9>The new animals were ready also.
"And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:" (Genesis 8:18)
<10>The life of the new human generation started.
"Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark." (Genesis 8:19)
<11>The new generation of animals also started.