Genesis 8:10-12

¹⁰Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

¹¹And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

¹²And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

— Genesis 8:10-12

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God of Fresh Starts

Article by Max Lucado

Hope is an olive leaf — evidence of dry land after a flood. Max Lucado reminds us that the God of hope gives us fresh starts just as he did to Noah with the olive leaf and the dove.

Cross References for Genesis 8:10-12

• Isaiah 26:8
• Isaiah 8:17
• Genesis 7:4
• Nehemiah 8:15
• Isaiah 25:9
• Genesis 8:10
• Genesis 7:10
• Psalm 40:1
• Genesis 8:12
• Isaiah 30:18

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