1And 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.One kind of creature doesn't seem to have gotten onto that ark: an editor.
2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Last chapter, it was "of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female." Here, it's fourteen for each of the clean ones.
I wonder how many dogs they took. I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty.
It appears that once Noah finished the ark, God gave him a week to gather all those pairs or fourteens of animals and load 'em up. One week to sail to every continent and wrangle all the species, the penguins, the malamutes, the koala bears, and the cherry-faced meadowhawk dragonflies. If a 600-year-old man could do all that, let's pray to him, instead of the ringer with the supernatural powers.
This chapter certainly meets the standards of the Department of Redundancy Department (did you say it was going to rain for 40 days and nights?), but maybe that's to lull you into a calm before a storm of raging death without equal.
Verses #21-#23 are a celebration of a nearly perfect genocide against the entire animal kingdom. If I'm not going to forgive Grady Little, I'm certainly not going to forgive this dude.
11 comments:
If this chapter with flood is crazy wait till you get t
deuteronomy, it clearly states that mixed fabrics are a abomonation before the lord and any one waring them should be stoned to death.
Seriously What is the point??
Dave,
Please see here and here.
Anyone trying to argue that the Flood actually happened as described in the Bible is, quite frankly, nuts! My fellow blogger at GifS, Stardust, posted this on the subject just recently because she still gets family members arguing with her that it did occur.
Of course, Noah's tale is probably the biblical retelling of the already-then-established Sumerian and Babylonian myth, which could have been based on the Black Sea flooding, which was nowhere near a global deluge - anyhoo. Onward and upward!
Rats, my link didn't work. Oh, well...
Eve, links should work here using HTML.
If it's continuing not to work for you, please send me the link at: vastleft@vastleft.com, and I'll be happy to post it.
Well, I'm obviously a little late to this party, but...
I'm not sure what a cubit is, but in the last installment (Genesis 6:15) we are informed that the height of the ark is 30 cubits. In this installment (verse 20) we are informed that "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered."
That was either one big ark, or some mighty short mountains.
Thanks Anon,
According to Webster, a cubit is about 1.5 feet. So those mountains are about 22 feet tall. Majestic!
For the above commenter, a cubit is traditionally the length from your elbow to the end of your finger.
So that's 40 days and 40 nights. Or was it 150 (chapter 8)?
And its 2 of every single creature, or was it 7 of every clean creature and only 2 of every unclean creature?
And did it rain, or were windows in the sky opened and water poured from the heavens?
Now, if Noah, and his sons, went into the ark in verse 6, then it rains for 40 days and nights in verse 12, what are Noah, and his sons, doing walking into the ark again in verse 13?
Really there are two versions cunningly (and sometimes not so cunningly) spliced together here. The Jahwist and the Priestly source.
By the way, what happened to the wicked fish? And the people that could swim? And the other people with boats?
Anyway, can I just say "Epic of Gilgamesh". The Gods want to destroy the earth because of the noise. Noah is Utnapishtim, who is warned by a god, so builds a boat, and puts in his family and representatives of each animal, the flood happens, and eventually resides, and the boat comes to rest on a mountain. He sends out a dove, then a swallow, the a raven, with only the last failing to return. Then they leave the boat and make a sacrifice in honour of the God who had warned them. On some occasions, the stories are similar on a word-by-word level. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the older one.
Where does it ultimately come from? Folk memory of the flooding of the black sea (it was previously a lake, but the flows changed and the mediterranean breached the gap), is considered most likely.
Where can one begin with this ridiculous story? Most 'bible scholars' place this flood at around 2250 BC...so we're supposed to believe that just over 4000 years ago life on earth was limited to 8 humans and the handful of species (apparently including no marsupials, arctic foxes, western rattlesnakes, microbes, etc.) which Noah could fit on a single boat. Talk about evolution! This 'theory' which christians generally disclaim is nothing compared to the theory you'd need to explain Mongolians, American Indians, Africans, etc descending from Noah's family in just over 4,000 years not to mention the 300,000 species of beetles.
Even sadder is the fact that this is widely regarded as the favorite children's story in the bible..I guess because it has animals in it. Still one must see how horrible a religion is where the 'favorite children's story' in it's holy book involves the annihilation of almost every living thing on earth by it's childish fit-throwing god. One wonders if any christian has actually read this book.
RWA,
Welcome to BS4A! I can't promise you much right wing around here (I'm not called "Vast Left" for nothing), but atheism we got!
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