Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 7

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Genesis 7 . 1 , Noah , with his family , and the living creatures , enter the ark , and the flood begins; Genesis 7 . 17 , The increase and continuance of the flood for forty days; Genesis 7 . 21 , All flesh is destroyed by it; Genesis 7 . 24 , Its duration.

Genesis 7:1

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 7:1 · BSB

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am 1656 , bc 2348

Genesis 7:2

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

Genesis 7:2 · BSB

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sevens Heb. seven , seven

Genesis 7:3

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:3 · BSB

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Genesis 7:4

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

Genesis 7:4 · BSB

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Heb. blot out

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Genesis 7:5

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

Genesis 7:5 · BSB

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Genesis 7:6

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:6 · BSB

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Genesis 7:7

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:7 · BSB

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Genesis 7:8

The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Genesis 7:8 · BSB

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Genesis 7:9

came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:9 · BSB

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Genesis 7:10

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:10 · BSB

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or , on the seventh day

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Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:11 · BSB

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or , flood-gates

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second month The first month was Tisri , which answers to the latter end of September and first half of October; the second was Marchesvan , which answers to part of October and part of November.

Genesis 7:12

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12 · BSB

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Genesis 7:13

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

Genesis 7:13 · BSB

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Genesis 7:14

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Genesis 7:14 · BSB

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sort Heb. wing

Genesis 7:15

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

Genesis 7:15 · BSB

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Genesis 7:16

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7:16 · BSB

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Genesis 7:17

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:17 · BSB

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Genesis 7:18

So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7:18 · BSB

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Genesis 7:19

Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

Genesis 7:19 · BSB

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At the present day every mountain where search has been made , conspire in one uniform , universal proof that they all had the sea spread over their highest summits; shells , skeletons of fish , etc. , having been found there

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Genesis 7:20

The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Genesis 7:20 · BSB

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Genesis 7:21

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 7:21 · BSB

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Genesis 7:22

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Genesis 7:22 · BSB

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Heb. breath of the spirit of life

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Genesis 7:23

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

Genesis 7:23 · BSB

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The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact. t he moose deer , a native of America , has been found buried in Ireland; elephants , native of Asia and Africa , in the midst of England; crocodiles , natives of the Nile , in the heart of Germany; and shell fish , never known in any but the American seas , with the entire skeletons of whales , in the most inland counties of England

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Genesis 7:24

And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

Genesis 7:24 · BSB

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  • Genesis 8:3
  • Genesis 8:4 compare with
  • Genesis 7:11 of this chapter , The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep , and the raining forty days and nights , had raised the waters fifteen cubits , or twenty-two feet and a half , above the highest mountain; after which forty days , it appears to have continued at this height one hundred and fifty days more

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web5 threads
Trajectories
Ark of Noah (Salvation Through Judgment), Noah (Salvation Through Judgment), Remnant (Faithful Few Preserved)
Chiasms
Shaped Genesis 7:1–16, Genesis 7:17–24
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