Genesis 7 · The Lantern

The Great Flood

And the LORD said to Noah, “Come, you and all your house, into the ark — for you I have seen righteous before me in this generation.

Of every clean animal you shall take for yourself seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and its mate;

(12) Why does he order seven of each of the clean animals, male and female, to be taken into the ark, but of the unclean animals only two, male and female, in order to preserve seed upon all the earth? (#Ge 7:2).

Now let us consider by what means Noah commanded the clean animals to enter the ark, seven and seven, male and female (Gen. VII, 2): but of the unclean animals, two and two, so that the seed may be nourished in all the earth. And as I think, he asserts that the clean week begins; because the world and the sacred seventh number are clean.

Of all clean animals, take seven and seven, male and female; but of animals that are not clean, two and two, male and female; of the birds of the heaven also, seven and seven, male and female, so that seed might be saved upon the face of all the earth.

also of the birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female — to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the ground every standing thing that I have made.”

And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came — waters over the earth.

And Noah went into the ark, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him, from before the waters of the flood.

During the actual exorcism, while waiting for the others, let men be with men and women with women. For now I need Noah's ark that I may have Noah and his sons together, separate from his wife and his sons' wives. For although the ark was one and the door was closed, yet decorum was observed.

The seven souls, however, who are given to the holy and righteous Noah, are recognized to have had a type of the seven churches, which through Christ are to escape the destruction of the fire of judgment and are to reign in the new earth with Christ. But perhaps it may disturb someone, why the churches are called seven, when one is spread upon the entire globe.

Was not Noah a holy man, who alone in the whole human race together with his whole house deserved to be delivered from the flood? And is not the church prefigured by Noah and his sons? They escape the flood, with wood (which symbolizes the cross) carrying them.

Of the clean animals, and of the animals that are not clean, and of the birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

two by two they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And after the seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month — on this day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

It is now time to examine the evidence that proves convincingly that the biblical years, so far from being only one-tenth as long as ours, were precisely as long as the present solar years. This is true of the years used in giving those extremely long life spans. It is said, for example, that the flood occurred in the six hundredth year of Noah's life.

And then what? "All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened. And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights." And a little later: "And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth." And again, "And Noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the ark." Here and now I wish to ask them who call God in…

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

On this very day Noah came into the ark, with Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them —

they, and every animal after its kind, and all the livestock after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every winged creature.

And they came to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

And those that came, male and female of all flesh, came as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.

And the flood was on the earth forty days; and the waters multiplied and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth.

And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed more and more on the earth, and all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

Fifteen cubits above them the waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

And all flesh that moves on the earth died — the birds, the livestock, the animals, every swarming thing that swarms on the earth — and all mankind.

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, of all that was on the dry land, died.

And he wiped out every standing thing that was on the face of the ground, from man to beast, to creeping thing, to the birds of the heavens; they were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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The Great Flood