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Genesis 7 Bible study: The LORD shut him in
The flood is told in the words of Genesis 1: the great deep bursts open and the sky's windows open. But before it begins, the LORD himself shuts Noah in, and when every living thing has been wiped away, Noah and those with him are left.
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“The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.”
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“Noah took seven pairs of every clean animal, not just two.”
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What's really going on
The words of chapter 1 come back
In Genesis 1, darkness was on "the surface of the deep" (1:2). God made an expanse, called "sky", to divide the waters under it from the waters above it (1:6-8), and gathered the waters under the sky so that dry land appeared (1:9). Now both come back: "all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened" (7:11). It's the same word for the deep, tehom. The waters cover the high mountains (7:19-20), and God wipes away every living thing "that I have made" (7:4), as 7:23 records.
Where it leads to Jesus
Until the day Noah entered the ship
Genesis 7:7leads toLuke 17:26-27
“Noah went into the ship” (7:7). Jesus points to that day: “As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:26-27).
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- "Then the LORD shut him in"
- Told like a ship's log
- The flood and the day still coming
- Only Noah was left
- 10 questions as you read
- 6 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
תְּהוֹםtehomsay te-HOHM
The deep, the great waters (Brown-Driver-Briggs: "deep, sea, abyss… primaeval ocean"). Its first appearance is 1:2, "Darkness was on the surface of the deep." Its next is here: "all the fountains of the great deep burst open". In 8:2 "the deep’s fountains" are stopped. Genesis uses it only these three times and once in Jacob's blessing (49:25).
For your group
Genesis 7 Bible study questions
- 1"Then the LORD shut him in." What do you make of the detail that God himself closed the ship?
- 2Noah's family was inside the ship for months while the waters stayed. What helps you hold on through a long season of waiting?
- 3"Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship." Who are the people in the ship with you right now?
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