Nov 09 2005
Genesis 7
“OK Kids! Everyone Inside NOW!!”
or
“Lots of Water and a WHOLE Lot of Devastation”
Verses 1-16 – These 16 verses both summarize the end of chapter 6 and provide greater detail to the Flood that is about to take place. Once again, God reminds Noah that he is being preserved because he is the person that God feels is worth saving. (It’s a harsh reality to face actually; I would imagine that Elijah during the reign of Ahab and Jezebel would have much in common with Noah.) However, we find here that God asks Noah to take more than just one pair of certain kinds of animals, as if the animals are special creations that God wants preserved right alongside humanity.
Specifically, Noah is to save 7 pairs of all clean animals, 7 pairs of all unclean animals, and 7 pairs of every kind of bird so that, when the Flood is over, these animals will be fully able to propagate their species once again. (Genesis, at this juncture, doesn’t tell us what “clean v. unclean†animals really were; however, if Moses did write Genesis, as many claim he did, the Hebrews who were reading/listening to these stories would know exactly what kinds of animals Moses was referring to. Ah, the joys of Levitical law….)
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