Genesis 7:1-8

1 The LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ship with your whole family because I have seen that you alone are righteous among the people of today.

2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal (a male and a female of each) and one pair of every kind of unclean animal (a male and a female).

3 Also, take seven pairs of every kind of bird (a male and a female of each) to preserve animal life all over the earth after the flood.

4 In seven days I will send rain to the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. I will wipe off the face of the earth every living creature that I have made."

5 So Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth.

7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ship to escape the floodwaters.

8 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that crawl on the ground

Genesis 7:1-8 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.