Genesis 7:1-6

1 The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.

2 Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

3 Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

4 Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on 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.