Genesis 7:11-16
God brings judgment according to His word and secures those He has called into His provision.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
God brings judgment according to His word and secures those He has called into His provision.
To record the precise beginning of the flood, the entry of all living beings into the ark, and God’s act of shutting Noah in, securing preservation amid judgment.
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.