Genesis 7:5

5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

Genesis 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:5

And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him,
&c.] He prepared for his entrance into the ark, and all the creatures with him; got everything ready for them, the rooms for their habitation, and food for their sustenance.

Genesis 7:5 In-Context

3 and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth.
4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
7 And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

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