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The story of Noah, the ark, and the flood described in Genesis 6-10.
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Why is Genesis careful to record the exact dates of the flood?
Genesis 7:11 (NIV, emphasis mine)
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 ...
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Why does Noah curse Canaan?
Genesis 9:23-25 NLT, reads,
Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they ...
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What was Noah thinking when he sent a raven from the ark?
In tablet 11 of the epic of Gilgamesh, after Utnapishtim's ark lodges on a rock, he releases a dove, a swallow, and a raven, in that order. The first two birds return when they fail to find a resting ...
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Was or wasn’t Shem’s son Arphaxad born on the ark?
My question is at the very bottom of this; I'm using the KJV.
According to the following 4 verses, Shem's son Arphaxad would have been born on the ark.
Gen 5:32 And Noah was 500 years old: and ...
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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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What is meant by "clean" and "unclean" animals in Genesis 7?
Genesis 7 orders Noah to take "clean" and "unclean" animals with him into the Ark, but this is way before people received kosher laws on what animals could be eaten. So what is meant here by clean and ...
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Was Noah absolutely blameless or relatively good?
This is the line of Noah.—Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.—Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was ...
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How did Biblical translators decide on cypress for the type of wood in Noah's ark?
Reading from Genesis 6:14 (NRSV):
Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover
it inside and out with pitch.
There is a note at "cypress" which says:
Meaning of ...
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Is there external historic or scientific evidence of a particular flood that corresponds to the Genesis 7 account?
Some have posited that the flood account in Genesis 7 corresponds to the flooding of the Mediterranean basin, others have suggested it may correspond to the refilling of the black sea.
My question is ...
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How does the Noah's Ark narrative relate to the Gilgamesh flood account?
How does the Noah's Ark narrative relate to other the Gilgamesh flood account?
For reference, the Biblical flood account is in Genesis 6-10 and the Gilgamesh flood account is on Tablet XI. The ...
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How can the 3 Questions be resolved with the math still correct?
Analyzing Noah and the Great Flood story, there appear to be 3 math problems, each with its own set of factors and calculations, that aren’t easy to resolve.
First is the “2 years after the flood” ...
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Hebrew Text Indicative of a Local or Global Flood?
I am trying to look for hints in the text of Genesis regarding Noah's account. There has been plenty of debate on whether the flood described is local or global.
The usual line of thought is that the ...
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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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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 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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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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"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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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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Can "avenge" be substituted for "require" in Genesis 9:5?
Genesis 9:5 begins:
"And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. (NIV)
"Surely I will require your lifeblood;" (NASB)
"And surely your blood of your lives will I require;" (KJV) ...
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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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Did Noah take two doves, or fourteen?
Continuing the response to the meta call for contradiction.
In Genesis 6:18 we read the following:
And I will make my covenant with you: and those that come on the ark, you and your sons and your ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Noah - 600 before his 600th?
In Genesis 7:6 we read Noah was 600 years old when the flood landed.
Only four verses later we read he'd been in his 600th year when the flood began.
Why would the author write of the events in that ...
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Noah's father Lamech and the Lord's curse
In Genesis 5:28-29 we read about Lamech naming his son Noah, but what he says as he does so has me wondering. With Gen 5:29 it seems Lamech almost knew something in advance.
Genesis 5:29 And he (...
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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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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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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;....
Note: Japheth will ...
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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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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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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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Reading the same thing 3 times in 18 verses
In part of Genesis we see something 3 times over just 18 verses. I'm wondering why the author might go beyond repeating just once.
Gen 6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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