Genesis 7:1-10
God calls the righteous into His provision before judgment, and obedience secures preservation.
1 Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
God calls the righteous into His provision before judgment, and obedience secures preservation.
To record God’s command for Noah and his household to enter the ark, affirm Noah’s righteousness, and demonstrate obedience in preparation for the coming flood.
God Brings the Flood in Judgment and Preserves Noah in the Ark
When God’s appointed time for judgment arrived, He brought the flood upon the corrupt world, yet He preserved Noah and all within the ark by His sovereign power and faithful word.