8:1 But God remembered1 Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over2 the earth and the waters receded.
tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).