CHAPTER VII _God informs Noah that within seven days he shall send a rain upon_ _the earth, that shall continue for forty days and nights; and_ _therefore commands him to take his family, with the different_ _clean and unclean animals, and enter the ark_, 1-4. _This command punctually obeyed_,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:2. _OF EVERY CLEAN BEAST_] So we find the distinction between clean and unclean animals existed long before the Mosaic law. This distinction seems to have been originally designed to mark those animals which were proper for sacrifice and food, from those that were not. See Lev. xi.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:4. _FOR YET SEVEN DAYS_] God spoke these words probably on the seventh or Sabbath day, and the days of the ensuing week were employed in entering the ark, in embarking the mighty troop, for whose reception ample provision had been already made. _FORTY DAYS_] This period became afte... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:11. _IN THE SIX HUNDREDTH YEAR, C._] This must have been in the beginning of the six hundredth year of his life for he was a year in the ark, Genesis 8:13; and lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood, and died nine hundred and fifty years old, Genesis 9:29; so it is evide... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:12. _THE RAIN WAS UPON THE EARTH_] Dr. Lightfoot supposes that the rain began on the 18th day of the second month, or _Marcheshvan_, and that it ceased on the 28th of the third month, _Cisleu_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:15. _AND THEY WENT IN, C._] It was physically impossible for Noah to have collected such a vast number of tame and ferocious animals, nor could they have been retained in their wards by mere natural means. How then were they brought from various distances to the ark and preserved the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:16. _THE LORD SHUT HIM IN._] This seems to imply that God took him under his especial protection, and as he shut HIM _in_, so he shut the OTHERS _out_. God had waited one hundred and twenty years upon that generation; they did not repent; they filled up the measure of their iniquitie... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:20. _FIFTEEN CUBITS UPWARD_] Should any person object to the _universality_ of the deluge because he may imagine there is not water sufficient to drown the whole globe in the manner here related, he may find a most satisfactory answer to all the objections he can raise on this ground... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:22. _OF ALL THAT WAS IN THE DRY LAND_] From this we may conclude that such animals only as _could not live in the water_ were preserved in the ark.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Genesis 7:24. _AND THE WATERS PREVAILED UPON THE EARTH A HUNDRED AND_ _FIFTY DAYS._] The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits above the highest mountains; after which forty days it appears to have continued... [ Continue Reading ]