Genesis 8:16

Go forth. Noah had learned to trust in God and to wait patiently during his 120 years of preaching and building the ark. That long period of active labor was followed by more than a year in the ark. During the first weeks and months he had experienced incessant rain, raging tempest, and tremendous upheavals of the earth, which seemed ready to destroy his frail bark. Later, as the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, there began a tedious time of waiting, which lasted for more than seven months. How often Noah might have felt that God had forgotten the lonely ark and its inmates on that high mountaintop. Happy twin virtues — faith and patience! With what eager joy Noah must have listened once more to the voice of God, bidding him go forth.