Noah Leaves Ark And Builds Altar To The Lord
On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, after the devastating global flood, the earth was completely dry, signaling the time for a new beginning. God commanded Noah and his family, along with all the animals, to leave the ark and begin to repopulate the earth. In an act of profound gratitude and worship, Noah immediately built an altar to the Lord, offering burnt offerings of every clean animal and bird. This act of sacrifice was a demonstration of faith and inaugurated a new covenant between God and humanity, promising never again to destroy all life by a flood.
Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: the birds, the 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.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him... Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
— Genesis 8:15-18, 20 LSB
— Genesis 8:15-18, 20 LSB
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Genesis 8:14-22 explicitly states that on the 27th day of the second month, the earth was completely dry, and Noah was commanded to leave the ark. While Cheshvan is the 8th month of the biblical sacred calendar, ancient patriarchal reckoning often considered it the 2nd month of the civil year. This event precisely matches the 27th day of Cheshvan.
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