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Verse Genesis 6:15. _THOU SHALT MAKE - THE LENGTH OF THE ARK-THREE
HUNDRED_ _CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF IT FIFTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT OF
IT_ _THIRTY CUBITS_] Allowing the cubit, which is the length fro...
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- Section VI - The Deluge
- XXIII. The Ark
9. דור _dôr_ “age, time from birth to death,” applied either
to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with
some leading individua...
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IV. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH
CHAPTER 6:9-22
Before the Flood
_ 1. Noah walked with God (Genesis 6:9)_
2. The earth filled with violence (Genesis 6:11)
3. The building of the ark commanded (Genesis...
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J gives no explanation of the universal wickedness which caused God to
repent man's creation, but the previous narrative has prepared for it.
Probably, however, the story, which begins abruptly, has l...
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THE FLOOD. This section has been very skilfully composed from both J
and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 6:12
f.; Genesis 7:7 and...
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THE LENGTH OF THE ARK SHALL BE THREE HUNDRED CUBITS.
"The fashion of the ark," its proportions, but not its actual form,
are given. The cubit was not. fixed measure, varying from 18 to 21
inches. "The...
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CUBIT. The latest approximation gives Genesis 17:5 inches. But this is
the "profane" cubit. The sacred cubit was probably about 25 inches....
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The dimensions of the ark, as here given, are somewhat smaller than in
the Assyrian account. Assuming that a cubit measured 1½ feet, the ark
was 450 ft. long, 75 ft. broad, and 45 ft. high. It will be...
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_AND THIS IS THE FASHION WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE IT OF: THE LENGTH OF
THE ARK SHALL BE THREE HUNDRED CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF IT FIFTY CUBITS,
AND THE HEIGHT OF IT THIRTY CUBITS._
And this is the fashion...
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THE FLOOD
This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers
of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the
divine purposes for men might be carried out. The s...
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The *ark had to be big so that there was room for many animals and for
their food. Noah must have taken many years to build such a large
thing. And he must have trusted God completely. Otherwise, he w...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 6
PEOPLE ARE VERY WICKED
V1 At that time, men began to increase on the earth. Many daughters
were born for them. V2 Then the sons of God saw that...
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CUBITS. — The cubit is the length of the arm from the elbow to the
tip of the middle finger. As, further, it was regarded as one-fourth
of a man’s height, we may safely compute it at eighteen inches,...
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וְ זֶ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֖ה אֹתָ֑הּ
שְׁלֹ֧שׁ...
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THE FLOOD
Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
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NOAH BUILDS THE ARK
Genesis 6:9
Human sin had reached an awful climax. Sooner or later its results
must have swept the human race from the earth, as smallpox will slay
every native on some infected i...
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With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual
and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture
between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in...
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GOD SAVED NOAH
The one righteous man on earth, Noah, and his family were saved by God
(Genesis 6:8). Noah was "just" in that he lived in accord with God's
will. He was "perfect," or upright, in that h...
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Three hundred cubits, &c. The ark, according to the dimensions here
set down, contained four hundred and fifty thousand square cubits;
which were more than enough to contain all the kinds of living
cr...
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There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention
may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with
facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8.
Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of
God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes
judgment...
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AND THIS [IS THE FASHION] WHICH THOU SHALL MAKE IT OF,.... The form
and size of it, its length, breadth, and height, as follows:
THE LENGTH OF THE ARK [SHALL BE] THREE HUNDRED CUBITS, THE BREADTH OF...
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1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused
the Flood.
8 Noah findeth grace.
13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke.
1 AND it came to passe, when men began to multiply o...
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THIRD PART
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD’S JUDGMENT AND OF THE WORLD’S RENEWING BY
MEANS OF THE FLOOD. THE FLOOD AND THE DROWNED RACE. THE ARK AND THE
SAVED HUMANITY. (THE ARK AS A TYPE OF THE PIOUS FAMIL...
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MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE
It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the
dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in
the corrupt mixture...
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12-21 God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water.
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psalms 25:14. It is
with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply...
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THIS IS THE FASHION, or, _this_ is the measure, or the manner
according to WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE IT; and it was a just and regular
proportion, the length being six times more than the breadth, and ten...
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Genesis 9:1-29
We have, now, arrived at a deeply-important and strongly-marked
division of our book. Enoch has passed off the scene. His walk, as a
stranger on earth, has terminated in his translation...
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Genesis 6:15 make H6213 (H8799) length H753 ark H8392 three H7969
hundred H3967 cubits H520 width H7341 fifty...
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THE COMMAND TO PREPARE FOR THE FLOOD (GENESIS 6:14)
Genesis 6:14
‘Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms (or alternatively
‘reeds' - which involves the same consonants, but different vowel
s...
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Gen. 6-7
A long period elapsed between the commencement of the building of the
ark and the actual flood. During that period we notice: (1) the
strength of Noah's faith. God has told him of a deluge of...
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CONTENTS: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of
men.
CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth.
CONCLUSION: The true believer can float in peace on the very waters by
which the wic...
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Genesis 6:2. _Sons of God._ Some understand this expression of Seth's
sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for
their being called the _daughters of men._ Others understan...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:15 In modern measurements, the ark would
have been around 450 feet (140 m) long, 75 feet (23 m) wide, and 45
feet (14 m) high, displacing about 43,000 tons (about 39 million...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:9 Noah’s Descendants. Chapters Genesis
6:1 describe a flood that leads to a renewal of the earth—a reminder
of the creation account of...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 6:14. Gopher wood.] Probably, “cypress” (Conant, Davies);
“pitch-trees, resinous trees” (Gesenius); “a hard, strong tree,
precise kind unknown” (Fürst).—
GENESIS 6:18. ESTABL...
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§ 4. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH (CH. 6:9-9:29).
EXPOSITION
GENESIS 6:9
THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH. "Novi capitis initium = "haec est
historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. Genesis 5:1). Noah
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Chapter six.
It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they were fair; and they took...
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cubits. Genesis 7:20 Deuteronomy 3:11...
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NOAH AND THE ARK
Genesis 6:11
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There is a verse in the New Testament which reads: "As the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
1. ONE CANNOT BUT MARVE...