Genesis 8

What happens in this chapter

God remembers Noah and the animals with him and sends a wind over the earth; the springs of the deep and the windows of the sky are closed and the water begins to go down. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain tops can be seen. Noah opens the window and sends out a raven, then a dove three times, seven days apart: she comes back with nothing, then with a freshly plucked olive leaf, and the third time not at all. He removes the covering, waits until the ground is dry, goes out at God's word with everyone aboard, and builds an altar; the LORD smells the offering and promises that while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, day and night will not cease.

What the lab shows, and where to look

In the Noah's Ark lab the landing and the raven-and-dove moments set the ark aground on a high mountain shoulder. That landscape is generic, and the card for Mountains of Ararat explains that Genesis names a region, not a peak. Roof and covering shows the covering Noah removed in verse 13; the slope of the roof is a guess. The opening a cubit high is where the lab has the birds let out, also marked as a guess, since Genesis 8:6 uses a different word for the window. Finish at Noah's altar, where the family stands outside the ark with the rainbow overhead. The Bible Time Map marks Ararat as a region, not a single site.

• Mountains of Ararat · Noah's Ark
• Roof and covering · Noah's Ark
• The opening a cubit high · Noah's Ark
• Noah's altar · Noah's Ark
• Ararat · The Bible Time Map

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