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Genesis 7:1–16 — Entering the Ark | Bible Commentary · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin reading from the ESV, Genesis 7, 1-16, entering the Ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord said to Noah, Go into the Ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth, and Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: 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 fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened, and rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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  SPEAKER_00: 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, they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.
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  SPEAKER_00: They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: God gives Noah seven days of warning before the flood begins, and once again, Noah's response is simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same pattern of obedience we saw in Genesis 6 continues here.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is also a detail that can sound confusing at first.
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  SPEAKER_00: God tells Noah to take seven pairs of the clean animals, but only one pair of the animals that are not clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later, the passage says the animals went in two and two, male and female.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not necessarily mean only two of every animal were aboard.
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  SPEAKER_00: It describes them entering as male and female pairs, while the earlier verses give the number of those pairs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Genesis becomes unusually precise about when the flood begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah is 600 years old, and the text gives the month and even the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The story is presenting this as a specific event in Noah's life, not merely saying that sometime later it began to rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the water does not come only from rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis says, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Water comes from below and above.
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  SPEAKER_00: That language also echoes the opening creation story, where waters were separated and given boundaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here those boundaries begin to break down.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ordered world described in Genesis 1 is now being overwhelmed by water as judgment begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives enter the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eight members of Noah's family are named or accounted for in the group, along with the animals God commanded to be preserved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the passage ends with a short but powerful statement.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord shut him in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah built the ark, Noah entered it, but God closes the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once that happens, the separation is complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: Noah, his family, and the living creatures inside are preserved, while the flood begins outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Genesis 7 1 to 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with Genesis 7, 17 to 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.