Genesis 6:14-22
God provides a means of salvation in judgment, and faithful obedience responds to His word.
14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
God provides a means of salvation in judgment, and faithful obedience responds to His word.
To record God’s specific instructions to Noah for building the ark as the means of preservation amid coming judgment and to highlight Noah’s obedient response.
Human Wickedness Fills the Earth, Yet God Preserves Noah Through Grace and Covenant Purpose
As human corruption fills the earth and provokes divine judgment, God shows grace to Noah, establishes His covenant purpose, and provides a means of preservation through obedient faith.