Genesis 7

And you're gonna be, uh, like I said, a little stretched.

All right? So Noah, or Genesis 7:13 in Young's Literal Translation, Literal Translation, created in 1998.

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This is very interesting, all right? It says...

[laughs] Gold refined in the fire seven times is your faith.

Not dancing on gold, right? Okay, that's where the new Jerusalem is.

Genesis 7, let's move on in this whole story of Noah.

"And the deluge is 40 days on the earth, and the waters multiplied." And what'd they do? "They lifted up the ark, and it raised up from off the earth." So it lifted them out of carnality.

"And from the birds of the sky, seven and seven, whether they're clean..." So there were, there were 14 eagles, which aren't clean animals.

Um, but there were, but there were only two lions, right? Um, okay, then Genesis 7:8-9, uh, he says, it says, "Two and two came to Noah to the ark, male and female." So th- so in verse, Genesis 6:19-20 says, "You will take," Genesis 7...

Or sorry, it says, "You will bring." Genesis 7:2 says, "You will take," and I'm thinking, like, so Noah's there with, like, a snare so he can capture the antelope, 'cause the antelope's not willingly coming.

I- if it's take, if it's Noah's responsibility to get them, he's got his work cut out for him.

Yes, no kidding.

How is he getting two antelope, um, right, and he's gotta catch them without harming them, uh, and they don't rip their leg off when they get caught in the snare.

How does he do that? Um, and then in Genesis 7:8-9 it says, "They came, and they came in pairs, two and two." So here it doesn't say how many came, right? In other words you could say, "Well, it's two." No, but it, they, shnaim shnaim means they came in pairs, right? May- maybe they were 14, maybe they were 2.

Whatever the number was, they came on their own accord.

Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who gives the Torah of truth and the good news of salvation to His people Israel and to all peoples through His Son, Yeshua the Messiah, our Master.

So let's start in Genesis 7.

Then the Lord said to Noah, Come, you and all your household into the ark.

For you only do I perceive as righteous before me in this generation.

Those that came, male and female of all flesh, came just as God commanded him.

Then the Lord shut him in.

That was Genesis 7, 1 through 16.

Now we have our portion from the prophets, and we will read Joshua chapter 9.

I lean heavily towards second incursion, but that doesn't mean ...

Yeah, I mean, I can't, I can't change what it says in Genesis 6 and Genesis 7.

Right.

So-

These words clearly indicate that only land animals and birds needed to be rescued by the Ark, as the inhabitants of the waters were naturally protected from the cataclysm.

When the flood finally came, as described in Genesis 7 verses 20 to 23, the waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than 15 cubits.

Every living thing that moved on land perished, birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth and all mankind.

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Only the latter two categories needed to be rescued on the ark, as marine life was safe in its natural habitat.

The second category of creatures not included in large numbers on the ark were the unclean animals.

In Genesis 7, 2, 3, God instructs Noah, Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

Noah brought more clean animals than unclean ones, but there is some ambiguity in the expression seven pairs.