Genesis 8:8-11

⁸Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

⁹But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

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.

— Genesis 8:8-11

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God of Fresh Starts

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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 8:8-11

• Psalm 116:7
• Matthew 11:28
• Deuteronomy 28:65
• John 16:33
• Genesis 7:4
• Genesis 7:10
• Psalm 40:1
• Genesis 8:12
• Isaiah 60:8
• Romans 8:25

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