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The story of Noah, the ark, and the flood described in Genesis 6-10.
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If all Humanity came from Adam and Eve and the flood happened (Gen 7), how could there be people in different continents when they were discovered? [closed]
19 Higher and higher on the earth the waters swelled, until all the
highest mountains under the heavens were submerged. 20 The waters
swelled fifteen cubits higher than the submerged mountains. 21 All
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How can we understand the Tower of Babel timeline?
I'm not finding a coherent explanation of the ENTIRE timing issue of the Tower of Babel. That I'm seeing the issue talked about so little baffles me, as the basic math from a plain reading doesn't ...
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Genesis 8 End Times prophecy
Genesis 8:22 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease
Should this be interpreted that the End Times are a great famine ...
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Is the dove mentioned in Luke 3:22 the same dove mentioned in Genesis 8:12?
Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Genesis 8:12 He waited seven more ...
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Is the Death penalty really justice? [closed]
In Genesis 9 God makes a covenant with Noah. Part of that covenant focuses on murder 9:6. What is curious to me is why enforce the penalty of murder with the death penalty when Cain was essentially ...
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Gen 9:4 - Why can't we eat the life?
What is the reasoning behind the prohibition from eating the lifeblood of an animal?
It isn't until Moses that purposing of the blood for atonement is provided as some additional reasoning behind the ...
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The Rainbow, its absence, its sudden appearance [closed]
Where was the Rainbow before the great flood?
In The Torah Portion, Noach Gen 6:9-11:32 we read that the rainbow suddenly appears, as if it where not something seen in the pre-flood days.
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Why does 2 Peter 2:5 refer to Noah as "the eighth"?
2 Peter 2:5 (Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament) :
and if he did not spare the ancient world (but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness) when he brought the deluge on an ungodly ...
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What are the implications of 1 Peter 3:20 in terms of the scope of the Flood Judgement?
1 Peter 3:20 says that, after the crucifixion, Jesus preached to:
[those who] sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing......
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Does Genesis 9:5 prohibit killing oneself?
In Genesis 9:5, God says (KJV, emphasis mine):
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s ...
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Why didn't Noah's righteousness/faith save his generation in Genesis 7?
Noah is said to have been righteous in his generation but his faith somehow did not help or stand as a hedge to save his generation
Genesis7:1 NASB
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and ...
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Whom is God conversing with in Genesis 6:7?
After lamenting the degradation of humankind God passes judgement on humankind,animals and every creeping things. Its not clear who God was addressing concerning this issue
Genesis 6:7 KJV
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What are some of the Major themes associated with God's Flood recounted in Genesis 6-9?
Genesis 6:5-18 seems to suggests that God saw man's wickedness, and decides to only allow a relatively good man named Noah, and his family, but then destroy all others belonging to mankind.
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Did the raven return back after being sent by Noah Genesis 8:6-7?
Genesis 8:6-7 ESV
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
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What did the seven day reprieve signify in Genesis 7:4?
After having shut Noah in the ark God waits for another seven days before the flood begins,nothing significant seems to take place during those seven days.
4 For in seven days I will send rain on the ...
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Based on Genesis 6:15-16, Could an adult male Giraffe (18-feet tall) actually stand in the 15-ft tall decks of the multi leveled 30-Cubit Ark?
Male Giraffes are kosher land animals (chew cud, split hooves) whose height reaches 18-ft height (above a Female Giraffe's 15-ft height). [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/giraffe-fact-sheet/#]
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Noah was righteous - but what about his sons?
EZEKIEL 14:16 even though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; only they would be delivered,
‘These three men’ refers to Noah, ...
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When were the spirits in 1 Peter 3:19-20 disobedient?
The passage seems to locate the time frame in which the spirits in prison were disobedient to the time period in which the ark was being prepared by Noah. Does the Greek support this reading of the ...
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Is it the case that Noah, his family, and all the animals had but one small window to breathe through (Gen. 6:16)?
God instructed His faithful servant, Noah to build the ark as follows:
Genesis 6:14-16, NASB: "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it ...
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Is Jesus implying that his second coming will be a literal, extraordinary worldwide event akin to Noah's flood? Matthew 24:36-44
Matthew 24:36-44 (ESV):
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of ...
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Does "the six hundredth year of Noah’s life" (Gen 7:11) mean the year during which Noah was 599 years old?
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In English and most other languages, positively including Spanish, the year that elapses between the birth and the first birthday of a person, say Noah, during which he is [0 years and] n ...
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Why did it take Noah this long to have children in Genesis 5:32:?
Genesis 5:32 NIV
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
All Noah's ancestors had children when they were around one hundred years but when it came to him it is ...
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Are there Hebrew linguistic connections between the images of the Flood’s Ark and Moses’ Ark
I previously asked a similar question on this site, about connections between the imagery in the Creation and the Flood stories in Genesis.
Now I would like to know if anyone who can access the ...
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Same term used for Noah's ark and Moses's basket
In Genesis 6:14
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and
shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
The term used for "an ark" is tebah. This term is also ...
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By what means or mechanism did Noah find חן favor/grace in Genesis 6:8?
It states that Noah found חן which is either translated in English as favor or grace, how did Noah find it? By extension how can we find it?
“But Noah found favor/grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
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What Exactly Were The FloodGates & "Springs of the Deep" In Genesis 7?
Was the flood caused by rain or the waters above and below the earth? In particular I'm looking at (Gen 7:4, 7:12 vs Gen 7:11, 8:2).
"Springs of the Deep" and "FloodGates" seems ...
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How long was Noah and his family in the ark? [closed]
Well some of the numbers that I have seen about Noah in the ark don’t make sense to me please help me out so I can have some understanding.
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Why did Noah Curse Canaan and not Ham? [duplicate]
Genesis 9:20-27 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw ...
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"clean" and "unclean" animals in both Genesis and Leviticus
In Genesis 7:2 we read
Of every clean beast thou shall take...
Up until this point God never revealed in the scriptures the basis for His distinction between clean and unclean animals (or at least ...
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How do the waters of Noah's flood correspond to baptism (1 Peter 3:21)?
In the NIV and the Berean Study Bible (apparently the most literal Bible translation according to its website) versions, 1 Peter 3:21 reads:
"and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you ...
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Shouldn’t it read her tent? Genesis 9:21
In this verse the translators say that the tent belonged to Noah, ‘his tent’ but doesn't the feminine possessive suffix indicate that it should be her tent, as in his wife’s tent?
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In Genesis 8:20, why did Noah offer sacrifices after the Flood?
In Genesis 8:20, Noah creates an altar after getting off the Ark:
Gen 8:20 ASV - 20 And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-...
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In accordance with Noah's prophecy concerning Shem, Ham and Japheth, is there any significance in the number of sons recorded in the text?
Genesis 10:2 (NKJV)
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan,
Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
v6) The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim,
Put, and Canaan.
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Why was Noah specifically required to build an ark with Gopher wood?
Genesis 6:14
" Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and
cover it inside and outside with pitch.
There were different kinds of wood that could have served this purpose but ...
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How was Noah able to distinguish between clean and unclean animals even before the Law was given? [duplicate]
Genesis 7:2 (NKJV)
"You shall take with you seven each of every clean
animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a
male and his female
Genesis 8:20 (NKJV)
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Canaan is the servant, but who are the other "Servants" that Noah was referring to in Gen 9:25?
When Noah said in
Gen 9:25:
"A curse on the Canaanites, a servant of servants shall he be to
his brethren"
The first servant in the statement is clearly Canaan. Who are the other servants?
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How is Japheth is enlarged if confined to the tents of Shem? Gen 9:27
In this passage, Noah explicitly states that Japheth will have no dwelling place of his own.
Genesis:9.27
May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell in the tents
of Shem;....
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"Out of the ground" or "Because of the ground" in Genesis 5:29
Most translations have 'because of the ground', some use 'arising from the ground', but the ESV stands out with 'out of the ground':
and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the ...
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Did Noah's curse on Canaan affect the other Children of Ham by implication?
My question deals with whether or not there is an extended prophecy about the other descendants of Ham by reason of the way Noah phrased and classified the servitude of Canaan.
It reads in Gen 9:25:
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What is the significance of Noah's name?
Throughout Genesis most (all?) of the Patriarchs' names have a significance within their respective scenes or narratives. Their names generally describe or are related to their stories.
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Does Genesis indicate everyone has Noah's sons as common ancestors?
It is written:
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were ...
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How long did Noah take building the ark?
I've always heard (sermons, etc.) that Noah took 100 years building the ark. Recently, however, I studied the ark in the Bible, and I am unable to find any place in the Old Testament or the New where ...
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Genesis Flood Compared/Contrasted with Atrahasis & Gilgamesh? [duplicate]
Being the theologians that you are, I'm sure many of you are very well aware of the extra-biblical accounts pertaining to the Great Deluge. It's quite fascinating to read these other ancient sources ...
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Is there a connection between Genesis 8:11 (dove & olive branch) and John 1:32 (Christ's baptism)?
Genesis 8:11 reads:
"And the dove came into [Noah] in the evening and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the Earth. (KJV)
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Is Hebrews 12:25 an allusion to the Judgement pronounced by Noah, or by Moses/Yahweh at Sinai?
Is the statement, "warned them on earth" (v25) an allusion to the judgement pronounced by Noah, or by Moses and Yahweh at Sinai?
See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those ...
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Why did God say that He was sorry that he made human kind? [duplicate]
In genesis right before the flood with Noah. God said that. Why would he be sorry for what he made? He made the people in his image right? (NRSV OXFORD ANNOTATED BIBLE)
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Did original Scripture say Noah was a "son" of 600 years when the water landed?
Clearly most English Bibles say Noah was 600 years old when the water landed. Gen 7:6.
It’s intriguing that one Bible in English differs quite a bit from others, if only in the words written. That is ...
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Was Enoch taken because he was righteous? Genesis 5:24
Genesis 5:24 reads: Enoch walked faithfully with God; then He was no more, because God took him away.
Is this stating that Enoch was the only righteous man apart from Noah at this time?
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What was Noah instructed to make in Genesis 6:16?
Genesis 6:16a:
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; (KJV)
I don’t know what the second part means,1 but I understand "window." Several other English ...
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Noah's burnt offering to God
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (ESV)
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