*Genesis 7:1-24
God instructs Noah to enter the ark with his family and animals before a flood destroys all living things on Earth.
- God’s Command:
- God instructs Noah to enter the ark with his family because He has found Noah righteous among his contemporaries.
- God commands Noah to take seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean animals, along with every kind of bird, to preserve their species on the earth.
- Noah’s Obedience:
- Noah, following God’s instructions precisely, enters the ark with his wife, his sons, and their wives, as commanded by God.
- All the animals, clean and unclean, also enter the ark according to God’s directive, ensuring their preservation during the impending flood.
- The Arrival of the Flood:
- After seven days, the waters of the flood are unleashed upon the earth, as promised by God.
- Rain falls for forty days and forty nights, flooding the earth and covering even the highest mountains.
- The Destruction of All Living Creatures:
- Every living thing on the face of the earth is wiped out, including humans, animals, birds, and creatures that move along the ground—everything perishes except those on the ark.
- The floodwaters prevail on the earth for one hundred and fifty days, signifying the completeness of the judgment.
- The Preservation of Noah and His Companions:
- The ark, built according to God’s specifications, floats safely on the surface of the waters, protecting Noah, his family, and the animals within from the devastation outside.
- Through Noah’s obedience and God’s mercy, humanity and the animal kingdom are given a fresh start, paving the way for the eventual renewal of life on earth.
7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.