Genesis 7:23

7:23 So the Lord ¹  destroyed ²  every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. ³  They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. ⁴ 

Genesis 8:1

8:1 But God remembered ⁵  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over ⁶  the earth and the waters receded.

[7:23]  ¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:23]  ² tn Heb “wiped away” (cf. NRSV “blotted out”).

[7:23]  ³ tn Heb “from man to animal to creeping thing and to the bird of the sky.”

[7:23]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁאָר (sha’ar) means “to be left over; to survive” in the Niphal verb stem. It is the word used in later biblical texts for the remnant that escapes judgment. See G. F. Hasel, “Semantic Values of Derivatives of the Hebrew Root só’r,” AUSS 11 (1973): 152-69.

[8:1]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT], especially p. 34).

[8:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “to pass over.”