The Story Through the Bible Gen 7-8
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Flood Begins
Flood Begins
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
So things are happening soon!
Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
Does this event seem like it echos with anything in our previous stories?
Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Not a slam dunk parallel but a recognizable one right? In some ways we’re mirroring a creation event. We’re now working backwards though - uncreation. This is what happens in biblical curse creation is undone. We’ll keep picking up on that theme as we see it.
Now, any guesses, or known answers for how long the flood lasted? - no googling, we’ll get the answer together.
The most common answer is actually how long the rain/deluge/flooding lasted.
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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
forty days and nights is how long the rain fell… but to figure out how long the flood lasted we’ll have to fast forward a bit. First lets take note of when it started. The second month on the seventeenth day. We skim through an hit the end of chapter 7 noting
And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Okay… so it was a 150 day flood? weeeeeeell....
and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,
Not entirely clear if that’s the 150 from before or another 150 days… lets keep reading.
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Oh! 7th month 17th day… so if this started on the 2nd month 17th day that’s exactly 5 months. Lets see 5 months times 30 days.... that gives us 150 okay so this is the same 150 days.
And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
so we get another 2 months 13 days
At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made
okay another 40 days… that’s 1 month 10 days...
He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Another 7 days… I hope someone is doing math here...
Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
Oh another 7 days....
So where are we… 9 months and 7 days...
We get dry ground to appear on the first month first day of the next year.
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
but it’s not until the 2nd month the 27th day that the earth is dried out...
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.
So we started 2nd month 17th day the ground is dry on the 2nd month 27th day. That’s a flood that lasted depending on how you count it 40 days/nighs of rain, 150 days until the peak, 10 months 13 days until dry ground appears , or one year and ten days for the entire flood to clear up from the beginning to the end…
1 Kings 4:7 “Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.” - This is the only reference we have in biblical text that I know of that lets us know it was a 12 month system. No where lists all the month names but we do get some of them in the Bible.
Why have we gone through this whole thing!?
02/17 start
This month is sometimes called Mar Cheshvan because there are no major fasts or holidays in this month at all.
03/27 rain ends
Chanukah starts on the 25th of Kislev
07/17 Prevailing flood ends and Ark rests
Passover starts on the 14th of Nissan. Depending which day of the week you think Christ was crucified this would be the feast of first fruits which begins on the day after the shabbat (sabbath) after the passover.
10/01 Mountain tops visible
11/11 Raven and First Dove sent
11/18 Second Dove
11/25 Third Dove
01/01 Waters are dried
Rosh Hashannah - Jewish new year
02/27 Earth Fully Dry they leave the Ark
Now… lets go back to the story part outside of the timeline.
The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
