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Genesis 7

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Genesis 7 Overview

Genesis 7 records the beginning and full force of the flood. Noah, his family, clean and unclean animals, and birds enter the ark according to God’s command. After seven days the fountains of the great deep and windows of heaven are opened. The waters increase until even the high hills are covered. All land-dwelling life outside the ark dies, while Noah and those with him remain alive in the ark.

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Before you read Genesis 7

Coming from

Genesis 6 announces worldwide judgment, Noah’s grace, and God’s instructions for the ark.

In this chapter

The threatened judgment actually arrives, and the same God who judges the corrupt world preserves exactly those he instructed to enter the ark.

Leads into

Genesis 8 records the waters receding, Noah leaving the ark, and the first altar after the flood.

Key understanding

Genesis 7 records the beginning and full force of the flood. Noah, his family, clean and unclean animals, and birds enter the ark according to God’s command. After seven days the fountains of the great deep and windows of heaven are opened. The waters increase until even the high hills are covered. All land-dwelling life outside the ark dies, while Noah and those with him remain alive in the ark.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

God’s warnings have appointed fulfillment.

Truth 2

The narrative repeatedly stresses Noah’s obedience to what God commanded.

Truth 3

The flood affects the whole world described by the narrative.

Truth 4

The ark creates a sharp boundary between judgment outside and preservation inside.

Truth 5

Clean-animal distinctions are already present before Sinai.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Matthew 24:37–39 uses Noah’s flood as an example of sudden judgment on an unprepared world.

Connection 2

Hebrews 11:7 emphasizes faith expressed in preparing the ark.

Connection 3

2 Peter 3 uses the flood as precedent for future divine judgment.

Connection 4

Genesis 8–9 continues directly with preservation, sacrifice, and covenant.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

The chapter’s scope language should be allowed to speak with full force rather than being quietly reduced before interpretation begins.

Keep this clear 2

The clean/unclean distinction does not mean the Mosaic sacrificial system has already been given in full.

Keep this clear 3

Noah’s obedience is the response of the man who found grace; the narrative should not be turned into merit-based salvation.

Keep this clear 4

The text distinguishes creatures that live on dry land from aquatic life.

Read Genesis 7 watching for…Explore deeper

Exact dates and repeated time markers.

The repeated phrase that Noah did according to God’s command.

The sources of the water.

The progression from rising waters to covered mountains.

The stark statement of death outside the ark and preservation inside.

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Chapter outline4 sections
1-5God tells Noah to enter the ark6-10Noah enters and waits seven days11-16The flood begins and the ark is shut17-24The waters prevail upon the earth
1

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

3

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

5

And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

9

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

10

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

15

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

18

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

20

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

22

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

24

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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