Thursday, December 22, 2011

Genesis 7:24

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

Genesis 7:23

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.

Genesis 7:22

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

Genesis 7:21

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, [the land] and every man:

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Genesis 7:20

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



Note:  the waters rose until they were 15 cubits (around 22 feet) above the tops of mountains.

Genesis 7:19

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

Genesis 7:18

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

Genesis 7:17

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

Genesis 7:16

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

Monday, December 19, 2011

Genesis 7:15

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

Genesis 7:14

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.


Note again that it is every beast "after his kind", not every single sub-species.  For instance, the horse would be representative of the Donkey, Mule, etc.

Genesis 7:13

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;

Genesis 7:12

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

Genesis 7:11

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.