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| 1 And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation; |
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| 2 of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female; |
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| 3 also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth; |
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| 4 for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.' |
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| 5 And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him: |
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| 6 and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth. |
Was 600 years old – Link No. 10 in the true Bible chronology. B43
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| 7 And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge; |
Son's wives with him – Noah and his family, with the ark, represent the Church, lifted up above the whole earth during the time of trouble, preserved from the terror of the trouble and afterward coming down from heaven to bless and replenish the earth. R3757:1
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| 8 of the clean beasts and of the beasts that [are] not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground, |
Of clean beasts – Suitable for human food, such as the cow, sheep, etc. R2843:2
That are not clean – Not suitable for human food, such as the horse and dog. R2843:2
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| 9 two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah. |
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| 10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth. |
The flood – Noah's day is similar to the present time. R4797:2, R5328:2
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| 11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened, |
Broken up – The main part of the flood came to the earth from the poles. PD16/25; R3934:2, R3045:1
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| 12 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights. |
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| 13 In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark; |
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| 14 they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird every wing. |
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| 15 And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit; |
Is the Breath – Ruach, spirit, life-power, as in man. E174, E314
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| 16 and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close [it] for him. |
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| 17 And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth; |
And the flood – Now abundantly corroborated by science. F27
Forty days – A prominent period of time frequently recurring in the Bible. HG102:4[HG102]
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| 18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters. |
The waters prevailed – The deluge of Noah's day was the last ring or belt surrounding the earth to fall; it was of pure water only. PD3/8
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| 19 And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which [are] under the whole heavens; |
All the high hills – Perhaps merely in the portion of the earth inhabited by man. R3933:6*
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| 20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered; |
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| 21 and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind; |
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| 22 all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit of all that [is] in the dry land have died. |
The breath of life – Ruach neshamah caiyah, breath of the spirit of life. E314, E319
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| 23 And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the ark; |
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| 24 and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days. |
150 days – With Gen. 7:11 & Gen. 8:4, a proof that 3 HG50:2
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