GENESIS 8
13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
– Genesis 8:13-19
GENESIS 8 WHEN NOAH GOT OUT OF THE ARK
A poem inspired by these verses by ILMA
It was the first day of the first month of the six-hundred and first year
That the Lord God dried out the waters from off the earth
It took the second month of that year that it totally dried out
Noah was instructed by God that they can now come out of the ark.
He was to lead his entire family and every living thing to come out
And they all came out so that they can be fruitful and multiply
What a glorious day that was when they finally are back on earth
No more isolation in the ark amidst all that was destroyed by the flood.
That big flood that swept the entire mankind apart from Noah and his family finally ended and now they can come out of that ark that protected them from being blotted out on earth. It must have been a joyful day for Noah’s family to be out from that containment and isolation. But at the same time, that ark was also their sanctuary and shield against the destruction of evil on earth. I could imagine that they were also honored that the Lord God had chosen them to begin a new world with evil erased in the world and that design of the ark which God planned himself was for their safety and comfort.
REFLECTION
- What would have happened if Noah didn’t follow all of God’s instructions?
