Genesis 8

God "remembers" Noah and recedes the waters after 150 days.  Again, it seems God is not omnipotent nor omnipresent as it seems the last living things on his creation appear to have slipped his mind.  The fountains of the deep and the firmament are closed and the rains stop, the first mention of rain as part of the disaster.  In any event, on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark comes to rest in the mountains of Ararat, which Asimov tells us lies in eastern Turkey.  Then the Bible says on the tenth day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains could be seen.  However, the ark has already come to a rest in Ararat, but only now the mountains can be seen?  I'm missing something.

Noah sends out a raven, which does not return.  He then sends out a dove, which does.  Seven days later he sends out the dove again, which returns with an olive branch.  Seven days later he sends out the dove again and it does not return.  Lots of sevens in this chapter.

Noah opens the ark to find dry land.  Noah, his wife and sons and their wives depart, as do the animals who go forth to be fruitful and multiply.  God says he will not destroy the earth in the same way again.

Noah then makes an offering of the clean animals and the smell is pleasing to God.  God makes a covenant that he will never again curse the ground because of man or destroy every living thing as he had done.  This appears to lift the curse on the ground he made in response to Adam's disobedience way back in Genesis 3:17.

No  new laws from God and it appears God is done killing this go  around.  I wonder where the raven went.

GOD'S COMMANDMENT(S):
DIFFICULTY OF FOLLOWING COMMANDMENT(S):
GOD'S DEATH TOLL THIS CHAPTER:
GOD'S RUNNING DEATH TOLL:

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