Genesis 7
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Lutheran reading notes
In Genesis chapter 7, the story continues to develop the theme of origins of creation, humanity, covenant, and the patriarchs. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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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.
Genesis 7:1 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {by sevens: Heb. seven seven}
Genesis 7:2 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. {by sevens: Heb. seven seven}
Genesis 7:3 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {destroy: Heb. blot out}
Genesis 7:4 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis 7:5 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Noah {was} six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis 7:6 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Genesis 7:7 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that {are} not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Genesis 7:8 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:9 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. {after...: or, on the seventh day}
Genesis 7:10 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {windows: or, floodgates}
Genesis 7:11 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:12 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 7:13 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {sort: Heb. wing}
Genesis 7:14 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein {is} the breath of life.
Genesis 7:15 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis 7:16 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Genesis 7:17 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 7:18 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that {were} under the whole heaven, were covered.
Genesis 7:19 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7:20 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Genesis 7:21 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All in whose nostrils {was} the breath of life, of all that {was} in the dry {land}, died. {the breath...: Heb. the breath of the spirit of life}
Genesis 7:22 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 7:23 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:24 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.