Genesis 7:1--8:22
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.
God remembered .................. God <02142 0430> [God remembered.]
domestic animals <0929> [the cattle.]
wind <07307> [a wind.]
fountains <04599> [fountains.]
rain <01653> [the rain.]
steadily <01980> [continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred.]
ark <08392> [the ark.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [seventh month.]
That is, of the year, not of the deluge.
Ararat <0780> [Ararat.]
Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested.
on receding <02637 01980> [decreased continually. Heb. were in going and decreasing. the tenth.]
opened ... window <06605 02474> [opened the window.]
raven <06158> [a raven.]
flying back ... forth <03318 07725> [went forth to and fro. Heb. in going forth and returning.]
dove <03123> [a dove.]
find <04672> [found.]
returned <07725> [and she.]
brought <0935> [pulled her. Heb. caused her to come.]
waited <02342> [stayed.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
olive <02132> [an olive.]
waited <03176> [And he.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
six <08337> [A.M. 1657. B.C. 2347. six.]
From this, it appears, that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the 600th year of his life, and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month, in the 601st year of his life, as we see above.
Bring out <03318> [Bring.]
increase <08317> [breed.]
groups <04940> [kinds. Heb. families.]
built <01129> [builded.]
clean animal ... clean <0929 02889> [clean beast.]
burnt offerings <05930> [burnt.]
smelled <07306> [smelled.]
soothing aroma <07381 05207> [sweet savour. Heb. savour of rest. curse.]
humankind ..... inclination .... minds <0120 03336> [for. or, though. the imagination.]
again ....................... again <03254> [neither.]
done <06213> [as I.]
earth continues to exist ............. day <0776 03117> [While the earth remaineth. Heb. as yet all the days of the earth.]
planting time <02233> [seed-time.]
Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man.
continues to exist ............. day <03117> [day.]
