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Genesis 8:20

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Noah's first act after leaving the ark of deliverance was an act of worship. He built an altar, a place of slaying the sacrificial victim, and brought a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. That is a proof of true faith, of true piety, if men wait for the help of the Lord in all patience, even when deliverance seems long in coming, and finally give all praise and thanks to God for the revelation of His goodness in sending help.

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See also Genesis 8:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 8:20. _NOAH BUILDED AN ALTAR_] As we have already seen that Adam, Cain, and Abel, offered sacrifices, there can be no doubt that they had _altars_ on which they offered them; but this,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated 19. משׁפחה _mı̂shpāchah_, “kind, clan, family.” שׁפחה _shı̂pchâh_, “maid-servant; related: spread.” 20. מזבח _mı̂zbēach_, “altar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALTAR. The first mentioned in Scripture. OFFERED. Hebrew. _alah_. App-43. BURNT OFFERINGS. Hebrew. _'oldh._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _builded an altar unto the Lord_ It will be noticed that, in this account by J, the first thing that Noah does, on leaving the ark, is to build an altar, and to offer sacrifice. In J's estimation sacr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Noah's Burnt-offering and Jehovah's Acceptance of it. (J.)...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOAH BUILDED AN ALTAR, &C.— Offerings and sacrifices necessarily imply the whole apparatus required; Cain and Abel could not have sacrificed without an altar. But that original one being destroyed, No...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. _Noah's Altar_ (Genesis 8:20-22). 20 And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And Jehovah smelled th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND NOAH BUILDED AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD; AND TOOK OF EVERY CLEAN BEAST, AND OF EVERY CLEAN FOWL, AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS ON THE ALTAR._ Noah builded an altar - literally, 'a high place:' probabl...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 8 THE FLOOD ENDS V1 But God remembered Noah. And God remembered all the animals that were with Noah in the *ark. And God made a wind blow over th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    An *altar was a pile of stones like a table. Noah made a fire on the *altar and he burned the animals. They were a gift to God. Many ancient people burned animals. They were *offerings to God. The an...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOAH BUILDED AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD (_JEHOVAH_). — The account of this sacrificial act is said to have been an interpolation of the Jehovist. Really it forms an integral portion of the numerous tradit...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֥בֶן נֹ֛חַ מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לַֽ יהוָ֑ה וַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    NOAH LEAVES THE ARK Genesis 8:1 Traditions of the Flood are found in every country, from the tablets of Babylon to the rude carvings of the Aztecs, proving man's common origin. “God remembered Noah.”...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Upborne on the billows of judgment, the Ark rode securely, holding within it the nucleus of a new departure in human history. When the work of judgment was fully accomplished, the waters decreased, an...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    A THANKSGIVING SACRIFICE The flood lasted one year and ten days (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:14). Noah's first act on the renewed earth was to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. It could be viewed as a sa...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Noah (i) builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (i) For sacrifices which were as an exercise of their fa...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Holocausts, or whole burnt offerings. In which the whole victim was consumed by fire upon God's altar, and no part was reserved for the use of priest or people. (Challoner) --- This is the first time...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Is not the Lord Jesus both our New Testament, Altar, Priest,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE FIRST ALTAR IN THE NEW WORLD_ ‘And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar,’ etc. Genesis 8:20 Noa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    20._And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord_. As Noah had given many proofs of his obedience, so he now presents an example of gratitude. This passage teaches us that sacrifices were instituted from t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8. Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes judgment...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND NOAH BUILDED AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD,.... Not an house for himself and his family, but an altar for God; his first and greatest concern being for the glory of God, and not for the temporal good of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Ver. 20. _And Noah builded an altar to the Lord._] This was...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Noah builded an altar_ The first altar that we read of; but not the first which was built; for the sacrifices which were offered before, Genesis 4:3, presuppose an altar or altars. And it ought to be...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The waters asswage. 4 The Arke resteth on Ararat. 7 The rauen and the doue. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the Arke. 20 He buildeth an Altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FOURTH PART THE GENESIS OF THE NEW, WORLD-HISTORICAL, HUMAN RACE; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FORM OF SIN THAT NOW COMES IN, AND OF THE NEW FORM OF PIETY; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BLESSING OF SHEM...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A RENEWED EARTH The five months of floating on a shoreless sea would seem interminable to Noah and his family, and it can be well imagined that they would feel that God had forgotten them. "But God re...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-22 Noah was now gone out into a desolate world, where, one might have thought, his first care would have been to build a house for himself, but he begins with an alter for God. He begins well, tha...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This is the first altar we read of, but not the first which was built; for the sacrifices which were offered before, GENESIS 4:3, presuppose an altar. Therefore it is no sufficient evidence that such...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 8:20 Noah H5146 built H1129 (H8799) altar H4196 LORD H3068 took H3947 (H8799) clean H2889 animal...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    NOAH OFFERS A SACRIFICE TO YAHWEH AND RECEIVES HIS PERSONAL COVENANT (GENESIS 8:20) Now we are approaching the covenants around which the whole account is based and was the reason why it was preserved...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 8:4 , GENESIS 8:18; GENESIS 8:20 On the slopes of Ararat was the second cradle of the race, the first village reared in a world of unseen graves. I. It was the village of the ark, a building...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 8:20. _And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offering on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;_ A savour...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 8:15. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: When judgment days are past, the believer will find himself safely landed in a better world. KEY...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 8:3. _The waters returned from off the earth continually._ The Hebrew, חלוךְ ושׁוב _cha-loveck ve-shou._ Montanus renders _eundo et redeundo,_ the going and coming of the waters. The word is u...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord_ NOAH’S SACRIFICE I. THERE IS AN EVIDENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SACRIFICE OF NOAH AND THOSE OF CAIN AND ABEL. Here, under God’s guidance, the mound of turf g...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 8:20 Noah’s burnt offering is intended to express gratitude for divine deliverance. It is also an act of atonement. Despite the human tendency to sin, atonement through sacrifi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 8:20_ THE DEVOUT CONDUCT OF A GOOD MAN AFTER A SPECIAL DELIVERANCE FROM EMINENT DANGER I. That Noah gratefully acknowledged his deliverance as from God. Tr...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:15-1 AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, SAYING, GO FORTH OF THE ARK. For which command doubtless the patriarch waited, as he had done for instructions to enter in (Genesis 7:11), "being re...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The eighth chapter begins with the words, And God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), Let me tell you this, God never forgot him. It is important that we realize that in the Bible, there are terms that ar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    builded. Genesis 4:4 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 12:8 Genesis 13:4 Genesis 22:9...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE ASSUAGING OF THE WATERS Genesis 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6, which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And Noah builded an altar — Hitherto he had done nothing without particular instructions and commands from God but altars and sacrifices being already of Divine institution, he did not stay for a part...

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