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Genesis 7

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Part of The Flood📖 Genesis introduction

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1When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous. ✦ 2Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others. ✦ 3Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood. 4Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.” ✦ 5So Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him. ✦ 6Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth. ✦ 7He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives. ✦ 8With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground. 9They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. ✦ 10After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth. ✦ 11When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. ✦ 12The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights. ✦ 13That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. ✦ 14With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind. ✦ 15Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. ✦ 16A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them. ✦ 17For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. ✦ 18As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. ✦ 19Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, ✦ 20rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks. ✦ 21All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people. ✦ 22Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. ✦ 23God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat. ✦ 24And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Gen 7 ·23Gen 6 ·17Gen 8 ·6Matt 24 ·62 Pet 2 ·6Luke 17 ·5Job 22 ·51 Pet 3 ·4

Christ at the center

From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.

How Genesis 7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereDocumentaryExpedition BibleJoel Kramer · Free · evangelical

    On-location biblical archaeology from a credentialed archaeologist (M.A., excavated in Israel) — the best free place to start on "did it really happen?"

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereVideoOverview: Genesis 1–11BibleProject · 9 min · Free

    The single best free starting point for Genesis 1–11 — clear, visual, and faithful to the literary design.

  • VideoSpoken GospelSpoken Gospel · Free · evangelical

    Short, gospel-centered videos and spoken-word poems showing how each passage points to Jesus — especially strong on the Old Testament.

  • ReferenceBook of Genesis — Visual GuideBibleProject · Free

    A free structured guide to the whole book — outline, themes, and links to each video.

  • DocumentaryIs Genesis History?Del Tackett · Free · evangelical

    A young-earth-creationist case for a literal Genesis, free on YouTube. (YEC is one view held by faithful Christians; others read Genesis differently — see the genre guide on how to read it.)

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Seminary

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryGenesis (Word Biblical Commentary)Gordon J. Wenham · Paid · evangelical

    For decades the gold-standard commentary on Genesis — technical but rich. (See the ranked list for alternatives like Hamilton, NICOT.)

  • BookThe Pentateuch as NarrativeJohn H. Sailhamer · ~560 pp · Library · evangelical

    A literary-theological reading that makes Genesis's design visible.

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