What does Genesis 7:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Of fowls also of the air by sevens,b the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth."
- The Ark Was Entered 2. טהור _ṭâhôr_ “clean, fit for food or sacrifice.” 4. יקוּם _y__e__qûm_ “standing thing; what grows up, whether animal or plant.” Compare קמה _qāmâh_ “stalk, or standing...
CHAPTER 7 Noah in the Ark and the Judgment by Water _ 1. Commanded to enter the ark (Genesis 7:1)_ 2. Noah's obedience (Genesis 7:5) 3. The judgment by water (Genesis 7:10) Noah is a type of the...
From J, but touched by the redactor in Genesis 7:3_ a_. J's account of the command to build the ark and its fulfilment has been omitted in favour of P's. J recognises the distinction between clean and...
Genesis 7:1-5 The account, from J, of the command to enter the ark. The chief difference, between the J and P versions, lies in the number of the animals which Noah is to take into the ark. According...
PART TWENTY-ONE: THE WORLD UNDER THE FLOOD (Genesis 7:1-24) 1. _The Embarkation_ (Genesis 7:1-24). _The Biblical Account_ 1 And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for...
_OF EVERY CLEAN BEAST THOU SHALT TAKE TO THEE BY SEVENS THE MALE AND HIS FEMALE: AND OF BEASTS THAT ARE NOT_ _ OF EVERY CLEAN BEAST THOU SHALT TAKE TO THEE BY SEVENS, THE MALE AND HIS FEMALE: AND OF B...
THE FLOOD (CONTINUED) 2. By sevens] RV 'seven and seven,' or seven pairs. The clean animals might be used for food, and would also be required for sacrifice. Observe that in Genesis 6:19 this distinc...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 7 GOD TELLS NOAH WHAT HE SHOULD DO V1 Then the *Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the *ark and take all your family with you. I have seen you as a good...
גַּ֣ם מֵ עֹ֧וף הַ שָּׁמַ֛יִם שִׁבְעָ֥ה שִׁבְעָ֖ה זָכָ֣ר וּ נְקֵבָ֑ה לְ חַיֹּ֥ות זֶ֖רַע עַל...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 9:1 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reas...
THE GREAT FLOOD Genesis 7:1 What anguish! They climbed the highest story of their towers, then to the hills, but the greedy waters followed them, till the last crag was covered, and all living things...
At last the work was completed, and the man who by faith had done that which was evidence of his folly in the eyes of the world entered the Ark, leaving behind him all his possessions. Then came the...
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...
3._To keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth_. That is, that hence offspring might be born. But this is referred to Noah; for although, properly speaking, God alone gives life, yet God here re...
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...
OF FOWLS ALSO OF THE AIR BY SEVENS, THE MALE AND HIS FEMALE,.... That is, of such as were clean; seven couple of these were to be brought into the ark, for the like use as of the clean beasts, and tho...
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. Ver. 3. _Of fowls also._] Such as are of clean kinds, as R. Solomon senseth it. The eag...
Gen. 7:2, 3. "Of clean beasts and clean fowls by sevens." Three couples for breed[ing], and the seventh for sacrifice (chap. Genesis 8:20), as in the distribution of the days of the week. See Henry _i...
1 Noah, with his familie, and the liuing creatures, enter into the Arke. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the Flood. 1 AND the [NOTE: 2 Peter 2:5.] LORD saide vnto Noah, Come thou and...
The Order to Embark...
See Genesis 6:8 ff for the passage quote with footnotes. Genesis 7:1 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....
PRESERVED THROUGH THE FLOOD Certainly so tremendous a project as the preparing of the ark would attract great attention by all the people, for in spite of Noah's preaching of righteousness (2 Peter 2:...
1-12 The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come in-doors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go into the ark till God bade him, though he knew...
Of clean fowls, which he leaves to be understood out of the foregoing verse, BY SEVENS; and of the unclean, by two; as before of the beasts, TO KEEP SEED ALIVE, i.e. the issue or breed of them....
Genesis 7:3 seven H7651 H7651 birds H5775 air H8064 male H2145 female H5347 keep H2421 species H2233 alive H2421 (H8763) face H6440 earth H776...
THE DAY ARRIVES (GENESIS 7:1) Genesis 7:1 ‘And Yahweh said to Noah, “Come, both you and all your household into the ark, for I have seen you as righteous before me in this generation”.' We now see...
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 o...
Genesis 7:1. _And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;_ Notice that the Lord did not say to Noah, «Go into the ark,» but «Come,» plainly implying that God was himself in...
CONTENTS: The flood comes. Noah and family preserved. CHARACTERS: Noah, his sons, and their wives. CONCLUSION: The blood of Christ keeps out the waters of judgment and makes the believers position «...
Genesis 7:2 ; GENESIS 7:8. _Clean beasts by sevens._ Male and female, reserving one for sacrifice. God's special care is over man and beast, and over the preservation of religion. Genesis 7:11. _The s...
_And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark_ THE ARK COMPLETED; OR, THE TERMINATION OF DEFINITE MORAL SERVICE I. THE TERMINATION OF AS ARDUOUS TASK. 1. This termination w...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 7:1 On the distinction between CLEAN and NOT CLEAN creatures, see Leviticus 11:1 and Deuteronomy 14:4. Since after the flood some clean animals will be offered as sacrifices (s...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 7:1. Righteous.] The radical notion of this important word in Hebrew is, by Gesenius and Davies, affirmed to be that of “straightness,” the quality of going evenly and directl...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 7:1 AND THE LORD, _Jehovah_, since Elohim now appears as the covenant God, though this change in the Divine name is commonly regarded by modern critics as betraying the hand of a J...
And so the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all of your house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Now of the clean beast thou shalt take by sevens, male with h...
Genesis 7:3...
THE WATERS PREVAILED Genesis 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory we wish to bring before you statements concerning Noah and the ark which are found in the First Epistle of Peter. 1. WHILE THE A...