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GENESIS 7
Genesis 7:1
The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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Why does God say “generation”, as the definition of generation refers to all of the people born and living at about the same time?
Why does God say “generation”, as the definition of generation refers to all of the people born and living at about the same time?
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What animals were considered “clean animals”?
What animals were considered “clean animals”?
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Genesis 7:2
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,
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Why does God say “its mate” when referring to the “clean” animals? Only clean animals are acceptable as a sacrifice, and “mate implies reproduction?
Why does God say “its mate” when referring to the “clean” animals? Only clean animals are acceptable as a sacrifice, and “mate implies reproduction?
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Genesis 7:3
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
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Why did God instruct Noah to bring 7 pairs of birds when he had him only bring one pair of animals (unclean)?
Why did God instruct Noah to bring 7 pairs of birds when he had him only bring one pair of animals (unclean)?
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Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
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Why did God let Noah know it would be 7 days before the rains would start? Is there any significance to the 7 days?
Why did God let Noah know it would be 7 days before the rains would start? Is there any significance to the 7 days?
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Why 40 days and 40 nights, why was that time frame given?
Why 40 days and 40 nights, why was that time frame given?
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Genesis 7:8
Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
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Why does God command the pairs of clean and unclean animals?
Why does God command the pairs of clean and unclean animals?
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Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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What does the seventeenth day of the second month mean, if anything?
What does the seventeenth day of the second month mean, if anything?
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Genesis 7:15
Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
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Why does God say pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life, when in Genesis 1 He let the land produce living creatures? Wasn’t “breath of life" unique to man?
Why does God say pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life, when in Genesis 1 He let the land produce living creatures? Wasn’t “breath of life" unique to man?
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Genesis 7:16
The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
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Were there creatures of the waters on the ark?
Were there creatures of the waters on the ark?
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Will there be another time we will need an ark?
Will there be another time we will need an ark?
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