Genesis 7:1-24
Come <0935> [A.M. 1656. B.C. 2348. Come.]
I consider <07200> [thee.]
clean ............. unclean <02889> [every clean.]
seven <07651> [sevens. Heb. seven, seven. not.]
cause <05750> [For.]
days ............ forty days ... forty <03117 0705> [forty days.]
every <03605> [and every.]
wipe <04229> [destroy. Heb. blot out.]
Lord <03068> [all that.]
seven days <03117 07651> [after seven days. or, on the seventh day.]
floodwaters <04325> [waters.]
second month ........ month <02320 08145> [second month.]
The first month was Tisri, which answers to the latter end of September and first half of October; the second was Marchesvan, which answers to part of October and part of November.
fountains <04599> [all.]
floodgates <0699> [windows. or, flood-gates.]
forty .... forty <0705> [forty.]
day <03117> [day.]
Shem <08035> [and Shem.]
They <01992> [They.]
wings <03671> [sort. Heb. wing.]
God <0430> [as.]
Lord <03068> [the.]
waters ... overwhelmed ............. waters <01396 04325> [waters prevailed.]
ark <08392> [ark.]
high mountains <01364 02022> [and all the high hills.]
At the present day every mountain where search has been made, conspire in one uniform, universal proof that they all had the sea spread over their highest summits; shells, skeletons of fish, etc., having been found there.
mountains <02022> [and the mountains.]
breath ... life <02416 05397> [breath of life. Heb. breath of the spirit of life.]
living thing <03351> [every living substance.]
The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact: the moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England.
Noah <05146> [and Noah.]
[compare with ver. 11 of this chapter.]
The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet and a half, above the highest mountain; after which forty days, it appears to have continued at this height one hundred and fifty days more.
Genesis 20:1
Negev <05045> [A.M. cir. 2107. B.C. cir. 1897. from.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
Gerar <01642> [Gerar.]
Gerar was a city of Arabia Petr‘a, under a king of the Philistines, 25 miles from Eleutheropolis beyond Daroma, in the south of Judah. From ch. 10:19, it appears to have been situated in the angle where the south and west sides of Canaan met, and to have been not far from Gaza. Jerome, in his Hebrew Traditions on Genesis, says, from Gerar to Jerusalem was three days' journey. There was a wood near Gerar, spoken of by Theodoret; and a brook, (ch. 26:26,) on which was a monastery, noticed by Sozomen.
