Genesis 7:1-6

The Flood

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ¹righteous before Me in this time.

2 "You shall take with you of every ²clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;

3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

4 "For after ³seven more days, I will send rain on the earth ⁴forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ⁵every living thing that I have made."

5 ⁶Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.

6 Now Noah was ⁷six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 7

This chapter begins with an order to Noah to come with his family and all the creatures into the ark, that they might be safe from the flood, which would quickly be upon the earth, Ge 7:1-4 and then gives an account of Noah's obedience to the divine command in every particular, Ge 7:5-9 and of the time of the beginning of the flood, and its prevalence, Ge 7:10-12 then follows a repetition of Noah, his family, and the creatures entering into the ark, Ge 7:13-16 and next a relation is given of the increase of the waters, and of the height they arrived unto, Ge 7:17-20 and of the consequences of the flood, the death and destruction of every living creature, except those in the ark, fowl, cattle, beast, creeping things, and men, Ge 7:21-23 and the chapter is closed with an account how long the waters continued before they began to ebb, even one hundred and fifty days, Ge 7:24.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 6:9
• 2. Leviticus 11:1-31; Deuteronomy 14:3-20
• 3. Genesis 7:10
• 4. Genesis 7:12, 17
• 5. Genesis 6:7, 13
• 6. Genesis 6:22
• 7. Genesis 5:32

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "generation"
• [b]. Lit "to"
• [c]. Lit "seven seven"
• [d]. Lit "heavens"
• [e]. Lit "seven seven"
• [f]. Lit "seed"
• [g]. Lit "was"