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No'ah. (rest). The tenth in descent from Adam,
in the line of Seth, was the son of Lamech, and grandson of Methuselah.
(B.C. 2948-1998). We hear nothing of Noah till he is 500 years old, when
it is said he begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. In consequence of
the grievous and hopeless wickedness of the world at this time, God
resolved to destroy it. Of Noah's life during this age of almost universal
apostasy, we are told but little. It is merely said that he was a
righteous man, and perfect in his generations, and that he, like
Enoch, walked with God. St. Peter calls him "a preacher of righteousness."
2Pe_2:5 .
Besides this, we are merely told that he had three sons, each of whom had
married a wife; that he built the ark in accordance with divine direction;
and that he was 600 years old when the flood came. Gen_6:7.The
ark. -- The precise meaning of the Hebrew word,
(tebah), is uncertain. The word occurs only in Genesis
and in Exo_2:3. In all probability, it is to the old Egyptian, that we are to
look, for its original form. Bunsen, in his vocabulary gives
tba, "a chest", tpt, "a
boat", and in the Coptic version of Exo_2:3; Exo_2:5, thebi is the
rendering of tebah.
This "chest" or "boat" was to be made of gopher, (that is,
cypress), wood, a kind of timber which, both for its lightness, and its
durability, was employed by the Phoenicians for building their vessels.
The planks of the ark, after being put together were to be protected by a
coating of pitch, or rather bitumen, both inside and outside, to make it
water-tight, and perhaps also as a protection against the attacks of
marine animals.
The ark was to consist of a number of "nests" or small
compartments, with a view, no doubt, to the convenient distribution of the
different animals and their food. These were to be arranged in three
tiers, one above another; "with lower, second and third (stories) shalt
thou make it." Means were also to be provided for letting light into the
ark. There was to be a door, that was to be placed in the side of the
ark.
Of the shape of the ark, nothing is said, but its dimensions
are given. It was to be 300 cubits in length, 50 in breadth and 30 in
height. Taking 21 inches for the cubit, the ark would be 525 feet in
length, 87 feet 6 inches in breadth, and 52 feet 6 inches in height. This
is very considerably larger than the largest British man-of-war, but not
as large as some modern ships.
It should be remembered that this huge structure was only
intended to float on the water, and was not in the proper sense of the
word, a ship. It had neither mast, sail, nor rudder; it was, in fact,
nothing but an enormous floating house, or rather oblong box.
The inmates of the ark were Noah and his wife and his three
sons with their wives. Noah was directed to take two of all flesh, animals
of all kinds into the ark with him, that they might be preserved alive.
The method of speaking of the animals that were taken into the
ark " 8 clean" and " 2 unclean,". The flood. -- The ark was
finished, and all its living freight was gathered into it as a place of
safety. Jehovah shut him in, says the chronicler,
speaking of Noah; and then there ensued a solemn pause of seven days
before the threatened destruction was let loose. At last, the threatened
destruction of the flood came; the waters were upon the earth. A very
simple, but very powerful and impressive description is given of the
appalling catastrophe. The waters of the flood increased for a period of
190 days. (40+150, comparing Gen_7:12 and Gen_7:24, and then "God remembered Noah"
and made a wind to pass over the earth, so that the waters were
assuaged.
The ark rested on the seventeenth day of the seventh month on
the mountains of Ararat. After this, the waters gradually decreased till
the first day of the tenth month, when the tops of the mountains were
seen, but Noah and his family did not disembark till they had been in the
ark, a year and a month and twenty days. Whether the flood was universal
or partial has given rise to much controversy; but there can be no doubt
that it was universal, so far as man was concerned: we mean that it
extended to all the then known world.
The language of the book of Genesis does not compel us to
suppose that the whole surface of the globe was actually covered with
water, if the evidence of geology requires us to adopt the hypothesis of a
partial deluge. It is natural to suppose it that the writer, when he
speaks of "all flesh," "all in whose nostrils was the breath of life"
refers only to his own locality. This sort of language is common enough in
the Bible when only a small part of the globe is intended. Thus, for
instance, it is said that "all countries came into Egypt to Joseph
to buy corn and that" a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all
the world should be taxed."
The truth of the biblical narrative is confirmed by the
numerous traditions of other nations, which have preserved the memory of a
great and destructive flood, from which but a small part of mankind
escaped. They seem to point back to a common centre whence they were
carried by the different families of man as they wandered east and west.
The traditions which come nearest to the biblical account are those of the
nations of western Asia. Foremost among these is the Chaldean. Other
notices of a flood may be found in the Phoenician mythology.
There is a medal of Apamea in Phrygia, struck as late as the
time of Septimius Severus, in which the Phrygian deluge is commemorated.
This medal represents a kind of a square vessel floating in the water.
Through an opening in it are seen two persons, a man and a woman. Upon the
top of this chest or ark is perched a bird, whilst another flies toward it
carrying a branch between its feet. Before the vessel are represented the
same pair as having just, quitted it and got upon the dry land. Singularly
enough, too, on some specimens of this medal, the letters NO or
NOE have been found on the vessel.
After the Flood.
-- Noah's great act, after he left the ark, was to build an altar and to
offer sacrifices. This is the first altar of which we read in Scripture,
and the first burnt sacrifice. Then follows the blessing of God upon Noah
and his sons. Noah is clearly the head of a new human family, the
representative of the whole race. It is as such that God makes his
covenant with him; and hence, selects a natural phenomenon, as the sign of
that covenant. The bow in the cloud [the rainbow!], seen by every nation
under heaven, is an unfailing witness to the truth of God.
Noah now for the rest of his life betook himself to
agricultural pursuits. It is particularly noticed that he planted a
vineyard. Whether in ignorance of its properties, or otherwise, we are not
informed, but he drank of the juice of the grape till he became
intoxicated.
One of sons, Ham, mocked openly at his father. The others, with
dutiful care and reverence, endeavored to hide it. When he recovered from
the effects of his intoxication, he declared that a curse should rest upon
the sons of Ham. With the curse on his youngest son, was joined a blessing
on the other two. After this prophetic blessing, we hear no more of the
patriarch, but the sum of his years, 950.
2. One of the five daughters of Zelophehad.
Num_26:33;
Num_27:1; Num_36:11;
Jos_17:3. (B.C. 1450).
Gen 6:4 There
were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons
of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them,
the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.Gen 6:5 And GOD
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.Gen 6:6 And it
repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at
his heart.Gen 6:7 And the
LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the
air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Gen
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Gen 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his
generations, and Noah walked with God.Gen 6:10 And
Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gen 6:11 The earth also
was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.Gen 6:12 And God
looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth.Gen 6:13 And God
said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is
filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with
the earth.Gen 6:14 Make
thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt
pitch it within and without with pitch.Gen 6:15 And
this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark
shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits.Gen 6:16 A
window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with
lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.Gen 6:17 And,
behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the earth shall die.Gen 6:18 But
with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark,
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.Gen 6:19 And of
every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into
the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.Gen 6:20 Of
fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping
thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee,
to keep them alive.Gen 6:21 And
take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to
thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.Gen 6:22 Thus
did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Gen 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for
thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.Gen 7:2 Of every
clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female:
and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.Gen 7:3 Of fowls
also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive
upon the face of all the earth.Gen 7:4 For yet
seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and
forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the earth.Gen 7:5 And Noah
did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.Gen 7:6 And Noah
was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.Gen 7:7 And Noah
went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into
the ark, because of the waters of the flood.Gen 7:8 Of clean
beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing
that creepeth upon the earth,Gen 7:9 There
went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as
God had commanded Noah.Gen 7:10 And it
came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the
earth.Gen 7:11 In the
six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth
day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep
broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.Gen 7:12 And the
rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.Gen 7:13 In the
selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of
Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the
ark;Gen 7:14 They,
and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and
every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.Gen 7:15 And
they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life.Gen 7:16 And
they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had
commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.Gen 7:17 And the
flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up
the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.Gen 7:18 And the
waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark
went upon the face of the waters.
Gen 7:19 And the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were
under the whole heaven, were covered.Gen 7:20 Fifteen
cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.Gen 7:21 And all
flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of
beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every
man:Gen 7:22 All in
whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land,
died.Gen 7:23 And
every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the
heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained
alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Gen 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred
and fifty days.
Gen
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle
that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth,
and the waters assuaged;
Gen 8:2 The fountains
also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from
heaven was restrained;Gen 8:3 And the
waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the
hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.Gen 8:4 And the
ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day
of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.Gen 8:5 And the
waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on
the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.Gen 8:6 And it
came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the
ark which he had made:Gen 8:7 And he
sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were
dried up from off the earth.Gen 8:8 Also he
sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the
face of the ground;Gen 8:9
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face
of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled
her in unto him into the ark.Gen 8:10 And he
stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark;Gen 8:11 And the
dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive
leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the
earth.Gen 8:12 And he
stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not
again unto him any more.Gen 8:13 And it
came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the
first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and
Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of
the ground was dry.Gen 8:14 And in
the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the
earth dried.Gen 8:15 And God
spoke unto Noah, saying,Gen 8:16 Go
forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives
with thee.Gen 8:17 Bring
forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both
of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and
multiply upon the earth.Gen 8:18 And
Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:Gen 8:19 Every
beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon
the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.Gen 8:20 And
Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of
every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.Gen 8:21 And the
LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not
again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more
every thing living, as I have done.Gen 8:22 While
the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Gen 9:1 And God
blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth.Gen 9:2 And the
fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth,
and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and
upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.Gen 9:3 Every
moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb
have I given you all things.
Gen 9:4 But flesh with the life
thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.Gen 9:5 And
surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast
will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's
brother will I require the life of man.Gen 9:6 Whoso
sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of
God made he man.Gen 9:7 And you,
be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein.Gen 9:8 And God
spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,Gen 9:9 And I,
behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;Gen 9:10 And
with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle,
and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark,
to every beast of the earth.Gen 9:11 And I
will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off
any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood
to destroy the earth.Gen 9:12 And God
said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you
and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:Gen 9:13 I do
set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between
me and the earth.Gen 9:14 And it
shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow
shall be seen in the cloud:Gen 9:15 And I
will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh.Gen 9:16 And the
bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember
the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all
flesh that is upon the earth.Gen 9:17 And God
said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have
established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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