“THE HISTORIES OF THE SONS OF NOAH” - THE FLOOD (GENESIS 6:9 B - GENESIS 10:1 A) - TABLET IV It has been common practise among a large number of scholars to seek to split the flood narrative into different so-called ‘documents'. This has partly resulted from not comparing them closely enough with an... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAY ARRIVES (GENESIS 7:1) Genesis 7:1 ‘And Yahweh said to Noah, “Come, both you and all your household into the ark, for I have seen you as righteous before me in this generation”.' We now see a reversion from Elohim to Yahweh because God is now dealing with Noah personally as one who is with... [ Continue Reading ]
NOAH AND HIS FAMILY ENTER THE ARK (GENESIS 7:5) This section is a real problem for those who seek to split up the narrative. In order to fit the theory it has to be split up into minute bits chosen quite arbitrarily to fit the theory. Yet in reality the section sits well together as a unity, incorp... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FLOOD (GENESIS 7:11) Genesis 7:11 ‘In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the covered openings of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days... [ Continue Reading ]
DESCRIPTION OF THE FLOOD AT ITS HEIGHT (GENESIS 7:17) Genesis 7:17 ‘And the cataclysmic flood was forty days on the earth (land).' We notice that it does not just say rain as in verse 10. While there was torrential rain there were also the huge tidal waves sweeping over the land.... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the waters grew deeper and bore up the ark and it was lifted up above the earth. And the waters prevailed and increased with great abundance on the earth, and the ark went up on the face of the waters, and the waters prevailed in great abundance, and all the high mountains (or hills) that were... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, cattle, wild animals and every creeping thing that crept on the earth, and every man, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. And every living thing that was on the face of the ground was blot... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the waters prevailed on the earth (land) one hundred and fifty days.' For five moon cycles there was no let up. The rain may now not be quite so severe and continuous, the tidal waves may now sweep in in lesser measure, but the waters did not begin to decrease. The new moon came and went, and... [ Continue Reading ]