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The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
A.Enter the Ark, Two by Twovv. 1-10
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate; 3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth. 4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.” 5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. 6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground 9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
B.The Fountains of the Deep Burst Openvv. 11-16
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons— 14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. 15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. 16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
C.The Waters Cover the Mountainsvv. 17-24
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits. 21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. 22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
Chapter summary
The flood comes.
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Chapter summary
The flood comes.
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The flood comes. Noah and his family and the animals enter the ark; the LORD shuts them in. The fountains of the great deep are broken up, the windows of heaven opened; forty days and forty nights of rain. Every living thing that moved upon the earth dies. Only those in the ark remain alive. Henry finds the chapter almost unbearable to read; Calvin marks the double source of the waters (below and above) as an undoing of the second day's separation. The chapter's refrain is ‘as God had commanded him’. Noah's obedience in the face of a world that has forgotten obedience.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.
Context
Law · Moses — Genesis overview
- A. 1–10 Enter the Ark, Two by Two
- B. 11–16 The Fountains of the Deep Burst Open
- C. 17–24 The Waters Cover the Mountains
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Genesis 77 verses
- Genesis 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Genesis 7:2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
- Genesis 7:4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- Genesis 7:8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
- Genesis 7:12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
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Genesis 66 verses
- Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- Genesis 6:17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
- Genesis 6:18But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
- Genesis 6:19And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
- Genesis 6:22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
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Genesis 84 verses
- Genesis 8:2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Genesis 8:3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
- Genesis 8:13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
- Genesis 8:20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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Psalms 1042 verses
- Psalms 104:6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
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Genesis 22 verses
- Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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2 Peter 21 verse
- 2 Peter 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
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Genesis 51 verse
- Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Luke 171 verse
- Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
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