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Genesis Chapter 7

Genesis

gen 7:0

Overview

Gen 7:1, Noah, with his family, and the living creatures, enter the ark, and the flood begins; Gen 7:17, The increase and continuance of the flood for forty days; Gen 7:21, All flesh is destroyed by it; Gen 7:24, Its duration.

Genesis 7:1

gen 7:1

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Come: Gen 7:7, Gen 7:13; Job 5:19-24; Psa 91:1-10; Pro 14:26, Pro 18:10; Isa 26:20, Isa 26:21; Eze 9:4-6; Zep 2:3; Mat 24:37-39; Luk 17:26; Act 2:39; Heb 11:7; Pe1 3:20; Pe2 2:5

thee: Gen 6:9; Psa 33:18, Psa 33:19; Pro 10:6, Pro 10:7, Pro 10:9, Pro 11:4-8; Isa 3:10, Isa 3:11; Phi 2:15, Phi 2:16; Pe2 2:5-9

Genesis 7:2

gen 7:2

every clean: Gen 7:8, Gen 6:19-21, Gen 8:20; Lev. 11:1-47; Deut. 14:1-21; Act 10:11-15

sevens: Heb. seven, seven

not: Lev 10:10; Eze 44:23

Genesis 7:4

gen 7:4

For: Gen 7:10, Gen 2:5, Gen 6:3, Gen 8:10, Gen 8:12, Gen 29:27, Gen 29:28; Job 28:25, Job 36:27-32, Job 37:11, Job 37:12; Amo 4:7

forty days: Gen 7:12, Gen 7:17

and every: Gen 7:21-23, Gen 6:17

destroy: Heb. blot out, Gen 7:21, Gen 7:23, Gen 6:7, Gen 6:13, Gen 6:17; Exo 32:32, Exo 32:33; Job 22:16; Psa 69:28; Rev 3:5

Genesis 7:5

gen 7:5

all that: Gen 6:22; Exo 39:32, Exo 39:42, Exo 39:43, Exo 40:16; Psa 119:6; Mat 3:15; Luk 8:21; Joh 2:5; Joh 8:28, Joh 8:29, Joh 13:17; Phi 2:8; Heb 5:8

Genesis 7:6

gen 7:6

Gen 5:32, Gen 8:13

Genesis 7:7

gen 7:7

Gen 7:1, Gen 7:13-15, Gen 6:18; Pro 22:3; Mat 24:38; Luk 17:27; Heb 6:18, Heb 11:7; Pe1 3:20; Pe2 2:5

Genesis 7:9

gen 7:9

Gen 7:16, Gen 2:19; Isa 11:6-9, Isa 65:25; Jer 8:7; Act 10:11, Act 10:12; Gal 3:28; Col 3:11

Genesis 7:10

gen 7:10

after seven days: or, on the seventh day, Gen 7:4

waters: Gen 7:4, Gen 7:17-20, Gen 6:17; Job 22:16; Mat 24:38, Mat 24:39; Luk 17:27

Genesis 7:11

gen 7:11

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.

all: Gen 1:7, Gen 6:17, Gen 8:2; Job 28:4, Job 38:8-11; Psa 33:7, Psa 74:15; Pro 8:28, Pro 8:29; Isa 24:19; Jer 5:22, Jer 51:16; Eze 26:19; Amo 9:5, Amo 9:6; Mat 24:38; Th1 5:3

windows: or, flood-gates, Gen 1:7, Gen 8:2; Kg2 7:2, Kg2 7:19; Psa 78:23, Psa 78:24; Mal 3:10

Genesis 7:12

gen 7:12

forty: Gen 7:4, Gen 7:17; Exo 24:18; Deu 9:9, Deu 9:18, Deu 10:10; Kg1 19:8; Mat 4:2

Genesis 7:13

gen 7:13

day: Gen 7:1, Gen 7:7-9, Gen 6:18; Heb 11:7; Pe1 3:20; Pe2 2:5

and Shem: Gen 5:32, Gen 6:10, Gen 9:18, Gen 9:19, Gen 10:1, Gen 10:2, Gen 10:6, Gen 10:21; 1Chr. 1:4-28

Genesis 7:14

gen 7:14

They: Gen 7:2, Gen 7:3, Gen 7:8, Gen 7:9

sort: Heb. wing

Genesis 7:15

gen 7:15

Gen 6:20; Isa 11:6

Genesis 7:16

gen 7:16

as: Gen 7:2, Gen 7:3

the: Kg2 4:4, Kg2 4:5; Deu 33:27; Psa 46:2, Psa 91:1-10; Pro 3:23; Mat 25:10; Luk 13:25; Joh 10:27-30; Pe1 1:5

Genesis 7:17

gen 7:17

Gen 7:4, Gen 7:12

Genesis 7:18

gen 7:18

waters prevailed: Exo 14:28; Job 22:16; Psa 69:15

ark: Psa 104:26

Genesis 7:19

gen 7:19

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. Job 12:15; Psa 46:2, Psa 46:3, Psa 104:6-9; Jer 3:23; Pe2 3:6

Genesis 7:20

gen 7:20

and the mountains: Psa 104:6; Jer 3:23

Genesis 7:21

gen 7:21

Gen 7:4, Gen 6:6, Gen 6:7, Gen 6:13, Gen 6:17; Job 22:15-17; Isa 24:6, Isa 24:19; Jer 4:22-27, Jer 12:3, Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3; Joe 1:17-20, Joe 2:3; Zep 1:3; Mat 24:39; Luk 17:27; Rom 8:20, Rom 8:22; Pe2 2:5

Genesis 7:22

gen 7:22

breath of life: Heb. breath of the spirit of life, Gen 2:7, Gen 6:17

Genesis 7:23

gen 7:23

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. Gen 7:21, Gen 7:22; Job 22:15-17; Isa 24:1-8; Mat 24:37-39; Luk 17:26, Luk 17:27; Pe1 3:20; Pe2 2:5

and Noah: Exo 14:28-30; Job 5:19; Psa 91:1, Psa 91:9, Psa 91:10; Pro 11:4; Eze 14:14-20; Mal 3:17, Mal 3:18; Mat 25:46; Heb 11:7; Pe1 3:20; Pe2 2:5, Pe2 2:9, Pe2 3:6

Genesis 7:24

gen 7:24

Gen 8:3, Gen 8:4, compare with Gen 7:11 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.


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