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Originally Posted by Azarias
 Can someone help me understand the structure of Genesis 7 and 8? It's very confusing. In one place it says the Lord tells Noah to bring 2 of every clean animal, but then he brings 7...
And then it goes on and on how long Noah spent (until the 27th day of the 601st year), but switches to Noah sending the dove out each week. It says he started after 40 days, so 40+7+7 =/ a whole year.
I'm a little confused about the timing here. |
Genesis 7
The Flood Covers the Earth
2 Take with you
seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have
approved for eating and for sacrifice,[
a]
and take
one pair of each of the others.
( the other animals would be the un-clean animals as mentioned in Leviticus )
3 Also take
seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood. 4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
Genesis 8
The Flood Recedes
6 After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat 7 and
released a raven.(
A raven is an un-clean bird as mentioned in Leviticus)
The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. 8 He also released
a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.
18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat,
pair by pair.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there
he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.[
e]
Someone else can answer the other question
