Month: June 2025

Genesis 10

Genesis 10

Genesis 10:1 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Genesis 10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Genesis 10:5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:8 Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first on the land to be a mighty man.

Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahveh. Therefore, it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahveh.”

Genesis 10:10 The first of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:11 From that land Ham went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

Genesis 10:12 Resen (the great city) between Nineveh and Calah.

Genesis 10:13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Genesis 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines descended), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:15 Canaan fathered his firstborn Sidon and Heth,

Genesis 10:16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 10:18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites scattered.

Genesis 10:19 But the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:21 To Shem also children were born. He was the ancestor of all the children of Eber, and an older brother of Japheth.

Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Genesis 10:24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

Genesis 10:25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days the land was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Genesis 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Genesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

Genesis 10:30 The region in which they lived extended from Mesha in the route of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad in the land after the flood.

Genesis 10 quotes:

“What does Genesis 10 tell and teach? It tells that there was a large family upon earth. This was the family of Noah after the flood. Noah survived the flood with his wife and his three sons and their wives. This chapter begins with the names of the three sons given, presumably, in the order of their age, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Then it tells us that these sons in turn had further descendants. The remainder of the chapter is occupied with listing in systematic order those descendants.”

Finegan, Jack. In the Beginning; a Journey through Genesis. [1st ed.] ed., Harper, 1962. p. 64.

“Genesis 1—11 itself contains a clear example of nonchronological order. Genesis 10 depicts various peoples “spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language” (10:5), and then Genesis 11:1-9 tells the antecedent story of oy that situation came about.”

Youngblood, Ronald F. How It All Began: A Bible Commentary for Laymen. GL Regal Books, 1980. p. 28.

“A careful search of the context of Genesis 10:25 clearly reveals that the division of the earth refers to the dividing up of the post-Flood people on the basis of languages and families, and moving them into different geographical locations. In fact, all of Genesis 10 is dedicated to dividing up Noahs family into its three major divisions based on Noah’s three sons and their families, and then to further list the sub-family groups.”

Ham, Ken. The New Answers. Primera edición ed., Master Books, 2006. p. 221.

Genesis 10 links:

A name
A Problem for Shem & Japheth


Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 6, 2021

GENESIS in Jeff’s library

DAVID’S CHOICE

DAVID’S CHOICE

1 Chronicles 21:9-13 NET.

9 The LORD told Gad, David’s prophet, 10     “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.” 11 Gad went to David and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Pick one of these: 12 three years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, or three days being struck down by the LORD, during which a plague will invade the land and the LORD’s messenger will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.” 13 David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”

Our Bible reading this week has brought us to a pivotal moment in King David’s life. He makes a catastrophic mistake, and the LORD uses that mistake to teach him about making wise choices. Everyone needs to make wise choices, but the higher up the chain of leadership you are, the more dangerous your choices can be.

The recent news about the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as Iran, has reminded us of an important fact. Leaders on all sides, including our own American President, have made decisions that have led to serious consequences. These decisions were more than just personal; lives have been either lost or saved because of the choices made by the leaders involved.

First, let’s review David’s sin—the poor choice he made that caused him to end up in this mess.

Israel faced an enemy. David was used to facing enemies. He had faced enemies as a young shepherd. Whenever a lion or a bear would come into his sheepfold to carry off a sheep from the flock, he would hunt that enemy and strike it down with his trusty sling. If the animal got too close for his artillery, he would grab it by its jaw, strike it with a club, and kill it. For every attack, David had an appropriate weapon.

David thought about this new enemy. It wasn’t just a personal rival; it was another nation opposing the one David ruled as king. Naturally, David wanted to know if his kingdom had enough resources to fight and defeat this other nation. He told his commanding general, Joab, and the other leaders of his army to gather their troops and take a count. He wanted a complete total of warriors from the southern outpost in Beersheba all the way to the northern outpost in Dan.

David is making a poor decision here. His first mistake is that he has bypassed those he should have consulted before making such a decision. Today’s chapter highlights Joab, the commanding general, as one of the people he should have consulted. Joab would have known the approximate strength of his troops. Joab was also aware of the prohibition against taking a census. He tried to intervene by pleading with the King not to proceed with this action. He knew that taking a census at this time would bring judgment upon the nation. But David refused to consult his general. For some reason, David would not listen to his military leaders.

The Bible teaches us that it is wise to seek advice from others when making important decisions. It says, “Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established” (Proverbs 15:22). David had many military advisers, but he chose to ignore this support system. As king, he believed no one could stop him from doing what he wanted. This is pride, arrogance, and a stubborn refusal to listen to anyone but your own heart. The human heart is more deceptive than anything else and is incurably wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). Whenever we start thinking “I can handle this,” we are risking disaster. That is what David was doing.

David also had other advisers he could have consulted. Today’s text mentions Gad, the king’s prophet. The prophets served as God’s voice to his people. When God had a word of encouragement, He spoke that word through His prophets. When God had a word of condemnation and judgment, He spoke that word through His prophets. Why didn’t David go to Gad and find out what the LORD wanted him to do? Again, it was David’s pride and arrogance that kept him from reaching out to God’s representatives. David said, “This is my problem and I’m going to handle it my way.” That might have worked for Frank Sinatra in the song, but it is not wisdom.

David could have directly sought the LORD for guidance on how to handle his adversary. The Bible says that a person is blessed if they find joy in the LORD’s commands and meditate on them day and night (Psalm 1:2). David was more focused on his own commands than on discovering what God actually commanded.

David’s decision that day was simple, but it had disastrous consequences. This chapter states that God was offended by it, so God attacked Israel. Then, all of a sudden, David realized he needed to pray. He came to the LORD and told Him that he had greatly sinned by ordering this census. He begged the LORD to remove his guilt and admitted that he had acted very foolishly. But instead of immediately forgiving David for his terribly bad decision, the LORD tested him by giving him a multiple-choice quiz.

David had three options. The LORD sent this message to David through the prophet Gad: ‘This is what the LORD says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them. The nation can have three years of famine, three months of being chased by your enemies and being struck down by their swords, or three days of being struck down by the LORD himself through a plague.”

There was no simple answer to this quiz. Either of David’s choices would result in innocent people dying because of his sin. There are always consequences for sinful actions. Nobody evades sin’s repercussions. If our sins don’t cause immediate pain or embarrassment, we might be fooled into a false sense of security. But this situation showed David that, as king, his decisions could either bless his people or bring judgment upon them.

If David had chosen the first option, his kingdom would have endured three years of famine. The nation would have lost people to starvation and been forced to seek aid from neighboring nations for subsistence. This is similar to what happened to Israel during its early days. The Patriarch Jacob had to send his sons to Egypt to buy grain from the Pharaoh, with Joseph overseeing the process. When the people ran out of money to buy Egyptian grain, Joseph made them slaves to Pharaoh. David would have known this history. He was not going to allow his nation, rescued by God from slavery, to be forced back into it.

If David had chosen the second option, his kingdom would have become an easy target. For three whole months, the surrounding nations would attack repeatedly and gain more territory. City after city would fall, and no matter how many soldiers David’s generals managed to gather, they would be defeated on the battlefield. Israel had experienced this before. They had been told about their ancestors’ conquest of this same land. Their grandparents passed down stories of the fall of Jericho and other battles of the conquest. David got himself into this mess because he feared a neighboring nation. There was no way he was going to let that happen to his people.

That left the third option. It didn’t seem much better. It would mean three days of plague. Again, the Israelites were familiar with the concept. Their ancestors had lived in Egypt when the LORD had struck that nation with the ten plagues. When a plague becomes global, we call it a pandemic. We know the fear that COVID brought us a few years ago. Nobody would choose to experience that. But David faced not a worldwide pandemic, but a local epidemic. He figured they could handle that judgment best because it would stay within his nation and wouldn’t involve aggression or domination by an outside nation.

His choice also shows David’s faith. He said, “I prefer to be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!” This is the David we know — the man of faith who trusted God to help him do the impossible.

The LORD sent the epidemic, and it struck the nation of Israel, killing 70,000 Israelite men. Perhaps those men would have been part of the warriors counted by Joab and his generals. The entire nation would have mourned the loss of its sons. But God was not finished yet. He then turned his attention to Jerusalem, the capital city. He sent a destroying angel. Once again, the Israelites would have remembered the stories they had been told about that destroying angel who struck down the firstborn of Egypt. This time, there was no remedy. No blood on the doorposts and lintels could stop this destroying angel. It would bring death and destruction wherever it went. It was going to ravage Jerusalem.

David was no longer cocky. He and his leaders wore sackcloth and threw themselves down, faces to the ground, humbled and repentant. David looked up and saw the destroying angel approaching. This mighty angel stood between the land and the sky with his sword drawn. The whole city could have been destroyed, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

But God—this same God that David said is merciful and compassionate—watched and relented from his judgment. He told the destroying angel to stop. He said, “That’s enough.” David once again takes responsibility for his bad choice and offers to sacrifice to God right there at the threshing floor of Ornan. David purchases the threshing floor and offers the sacrifice. That would become the place where the temple of God would be built by David’s son, Solomon.

What can we learn from today’s lesson? What does it reveal about the decisions we make? What does it teach us about choosing wisely? Consider these principles. When you’re facing a problem, don’t assume that you already know the answer. Seek help from others before responding to the issue. Look for godly advisers. Second, set aside some time for prayer. You want to understand God’s will. God is not stingy with his will, but he probably won’t tell you what he wants unless you take the time to ask for it.

But what happens if you fail to follow these principles? What if you’ve already made a bad decision and are facing the consequences? Don’t hide it. Don’t try to distance yourself from the problem. Humble yourself before the LORD and submit to His mercy. Do what you can to make amends for the harm you’ve caused. Trust the LORD to turn your failure into a blessing for yourself and others. We all sin, but after sinning, we have a choice. We can choose to hide it or we can choose to confess it. We can choose to take pride in our sins or to repent of them. David decided to repent. He admitted that he was the one who sinned and committed this terrible deed. He demonstrated faith and wisdom when he said, “Have Thine own way, LORD!”

Genesis 9

Genesis 9

Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his family and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land.

Genesis 9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every living thing of the land and upon every bird of the sky, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. They are placed into your hand.

Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. And as I gave you the vegetation, I give you everything.

Genesis 9:4 But you will not eat flesh with its throat, that is, its blood.

Genesis 9:5 And for the blood of your throats I will require the same: from every living thing I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require the same for killing the throat of man.

Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man will his blood be shed, because God made man in his own image.

Genesis 9:7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase on the land and multiply in it.”

Genesis 9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, and this is what he said,

Genesis 9:9 “Notice, I am establishing my covenant with you and your seed after you,

Genesis 9:10 and with every living throat that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every living thing of the land with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every living thing of the land.

Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again will every flesh be cut off by the water of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the land.”

Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living throat that is with you, for all future generations:

Genesis 9:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the land.

Genesis 9:14 When I place clouds over the land and the rainbow is seen in the clouds,

Genesis 9:15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living throat of every flesh. And the water will never again become a flood to destroy every flesh.

Genesis 9:16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the permanent covenant between God and every living throat of every flesh that is on the land.”

Genesis 9:17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and every flesh that is on the land.”

Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole land were scattered.

Genesis 9:20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

Genesis 9:25 he said, “Canaan is cursed; a slave[1] of slaves will he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26 He also said, “Blessed be Yahveh, the God of Shem; and Canaan will be his slave.

Genesis 9:27 May God expand Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, Canaan will be his slave.”

Genesis 9:28 Noah lived 350 years past the flood.

Genesis 9:29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

[1] עֶבֶד = slave. Genesis 9:25, 26, 27; 12:16; 14:15; 18:3, 5; 19:2, 19; 20:8, 14; 21:25; 24:2, 5, 9, 10, 14, 17, 34, 35, 52, 53, 59, 61, 65, 66; 26:15, 19, 24, 25, 32; 27:37; 30:43; 32:4, 5, 10, 16, 18, 20; 33:5, 14; 39:17, 19; 40:20; 41:10, 12, 37, 38; 42:10, 11, 13; 43:18, 28; 44:7, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33; 45:16; 46:34; 47:3, 4, 19, 25; 50:2, 7, 17, 18.

Genesis 9 quotes:

“The first reference to capital punishment is Genesis 9:6—“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God has God made man.” Murder, the shedding of man’s blood by man, is declared to be a capital crime because of the unique value of human life. Mankind bears the imago Dei, and the willful termination of an embodiment of that image merits the ultimate penalty—death. This principle extends to the entire human race because Noah, to whom it was given, stood at the head of a new beginning of the human race. Principles given to Noah were not confined to any group, family, or cult.”

House, H. Wayne, and John Howard Yoder. The Death Penalty Debate. Word Pub, 1991. p. 30.

“It would indeed appear that by far the largest part of the many millennia of all human history is covered in the brief record contained in roughly chapters 2 through 6 of the book of Genesis (or through chapter 8, if we include the Deluge episode). And, measuring again simply in terms of the passage of time, considerably more than half of the history from the Flood to the present is dealt with in Genesis 9 through 11.

Kline, Meredith G. Kingdom Prologue : Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview. Wipf and Stock, 2006. p. 10.

“Because of the Flood’s destruction of all life, future generations might conclude that life is cheap to God and assume that humans can do likewise. However, the covenant affirms the sacredness of human life and that murder is punishable by losing one’s life. The text, therefore, institutes the principle of talionic justice, or law of like punishment. It is not-a harsh principle of justice, for it establishes the premise that the punishment should fit the crime.”

Eckman, James P. Christian Ethics in a Postmodern World. Evangelical Training Association, 1999. p. 66.

Genesis 9 links:

A Blessing for Shem & Japheth
A Curse on Canaan
A New Covenant
all about a Promise (part 1)
discovered
Excursus- Moses on the souls of animals
Grudem on the Image of God in humanity
soul searching
the promise – eternal life

Maranatha Daily Devotional – May 20, 2015
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Sunday, January 21, 2018

GENESIS in Jeff’s library

Genesis 8

Genesis 8

Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the living things and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters began to dry.

Genesis 8:2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were closed, the rain from the sky was restrained,

Genesis 8:3 and the water receded from the land continually. At the end of 150 days the water had gone down,

Genesis 8:4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:5 And the water continued to go down until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Genesis 8:6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water was dried up from the land.

Genesis 8:8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water had receded from the face of the ground.

Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned for him to the ark, because the water was still on the face of the whole land. So, he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

Genesis 8:10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:11 And the dove came back to him in the evening and he noticed that in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So, Noah understood that the water had subsided from the land.

Genesis 8:12 Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

Genesis 8:13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water had dried from off the land. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and noticed the face of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land had dried out.

Genesis 8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, and this is what he said,

Genesis 8:16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 8:17 Bring out with you everything alive of every flesh that is with you: birds and living things and every moving thing on the land – that they may swarm on the land and be fruitful and multiply on the land.”

Genesis 8:18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

Genesis 8:19 Every living thing, every moving thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the land, went in groups from the ark.

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to Yahveh and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered ascending offerings[1] on the altar.

Genesis 8:21 And when Yahveh smelled the pleasing aroma, Yahveh said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, because the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Genesis 8:22 While all the days of the land remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not stop.”

[1] עֹלָה = ascending offering. Genesis 8:20; 22:2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13.

Genesis 8 quotes:

“Always prepare your heart to give strange obedience to strange instructions in order to facilitate strange positive results. When the unusual happens, especially after much prayer and absolute dependence on God, do not panic; that’s part of the deliverance package. All you need to do is contact the control tower. The unusual God will use the unusual means to remove the unusual sound that terrorises you and land your ark safely in an unusual manner.”

Ajitena, Ebenezer. Designed for Success: A Motivational Book for Today’s “Ark-Builder.” Emmanuel House, 2000. p. 47.

“This is the second mention of ‘rest’ in Scripture, the first being when God rested after His work of creation (Genesis 2:2). Actually, these are two different, though synonymous, Hebrew words (‘Shabath’, Genesis 2:2 and ‘Nuwach’, Genesis 8:4). If the ark is a true type of Christ…this is most appropriate. As God ‘finished’ His work of creation and as the ark ‘finished’ its mission, so also Christ ‘finished His work of salvation. (John 19:30, ‘It is finished’).”

Johnson, Jeffrey D. God Was There: Genesis Chapters 1-12. Resource Publications, 2005. p. 86.

“What we are really learning in Genesis 8:1 is that God is active. Theistic evolutionists believe that God has created this world by a process of blind evolution. Although they object strongly when I say it, they basically believe that God has set everything going and then stands back in order to observe it, without real involvement. Genesis 8:1 is, therefore, strong evidence against theistic evolution. God left nothing to chance.”

Taylor, Paul. Don’t Miss the Boat : Facts to Keep Your Faith Afloat. Master Books, 2013. p. 38.

Genesis 8 links:

first look at a second chance
first look at a second covenant
introducing the breath of God
Worship as a response for deliverance

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, January 19, 2018
Maranatha Daily Devotional – May 19, 2015

GENESIS in Jeff’s library

Genesis 7

Genesis 7

Genesis 7:1 Then Yahveh said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your house, because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean living things , the male and his mate, and a pair of the living things  that are not clean, the male and his mate,

Genesis 7:3 and seven pairs of the birds of the sky also, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the land.

Genesis 7:4 You see, in seven days I will send rain on the land forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 7:5 And Noah did all that Yahveh had commanded him.

Genesis 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the land.

Genesis 7:7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the water of the flood.

Genesis 7:8 Among clean living things , and among living things  that are not clean, and among birds, and among everything that creeps on the ground,

Genesis 7:9 in pairs, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10 And after seven days the water of the flood came upon the land.

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the sky were opened.

Genesis 7:12 And rain fell upon the land forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

Genesis 7:14 they and every living thing, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every moving thing on the land, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged being.

Genesis 7:15 They went into the ark with Noah, in pairs of every flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Genesis 7:16 And those that entered, a male and female of every flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And Yahveh shut the door behind him.

Genesis 7:17 The flood continued forty days on the land. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the land.

Genesis 7:18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the land, and the ark floated on the face of the water.

Genesis 7:19 And the water flooded so high on the land that all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.

Genesis 7:20 The water flooded above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

Genesis 7:21 And every flesh died that moved on the land, birds, livestock, living things, all swarming creatures that swarm on the land, and all humanity.

Genesis 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breathing of life who were on the dry land died.

Genesis 7:23 He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and living things and moving things and birds of the sky. They were wiped out from the land. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:24 And the water remained on the land 150 days.

Genesis 7 quotes:

“Notice in this fourth verse that God said He would destroy “every living substance.” This leads us to believe that the destruction of the flood was more general than anyone today has dreamed. However, we know that all plant life was not included in this sentence of doom, because when the dove went out from the ark after the flood, it returned with an olive branch in its mouth. Therefore, the olive trees must have been alive. Yet, how devastating this sentence of destruction was upon every living substance, no one will ever know, but we may be sure of this, that this old world got a thorough purging by the waters of the flood.”

Hogg, W. B. Talks on the Book of Genesis. Country Church; Pioneer Press, 1936-1937. p. 109.

“God did not say, “Now Noah, shut the door and slide the bar.” No, the Lord does not place the safety of His own in the hands of men. He Himself snaps the lock.”

Greig, Doris W. Discovering God’s Power : Studies in Genesis 1-17 : Life-Related for Personal and Group Study. Regal Books, 1984. p. 115.

“Something else in Genesis that speaks to the extent of the Flood is how high the flood waters rose. Genesis 7:19-20 says, “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.” In these verses we find that the flood waters rose to a depth of 1 3 cubits (22.5 feet) above the highest mountains. Many devastating local floods probably do not often exceed water levels of 22.5 feet. But the Flood described in Genesis resulted in waters that rose 22.5 feet above the highest mountains, not just above ground level.”

Forlow, Stephen Bradley. Five Evidences for a Global Flood. Institute for Creation Research, 2011. p. 12.

Genesis 7 links:

Death and Resurrection
Defending a bit of unconsciousness
first look at destruction by justice
introducing the breath of God
rescuing the text
The hook that caught me
The Long Wait

Maranatha Daily Devotional – May 18, 2015
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, January 18, 2018
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, January 4, 2023

GENESIS in Jeff’s library