7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
Every raven after his kind;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)We have here an account of the spies which Noah sent forth to bring him intelligence from abroad, a raven and a dove. Observe here, I. That though God had told Noah particularly when the flood would come, even to a day (Gen. 7:4), yet he did not give him a particular account by revelation at what times, and by what steps, it should go away , 1. Because the knowledge of the former was necessary to…
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