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.