Pastor George Grant; The Eyes of the Lord; Genesis 7:1–24

Gen­e­sis 7:1–24

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. Take with you seven pairs of all clean ani­mals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the ani­mals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heav­ens also, male and female, to keep their off­spring alive on the face of all the earth. 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. 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. And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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. On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, they and every beast, accord­ing to its kind, and all the live­stock accord­ing to their kinds, and every creep­ing thing that creeps on the earth, accord­ing to its kind, and every bird, accord­ing to its kind, every winged crea­ture. They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had com­manded him. And the LORD shut him in.

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. And the waters pre­vailed on the earth 150 days.