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Genesis (American Standard Version, 1901) · 8 of 73 · tr. American Standard Version (1901)

7:2-7:24

[7:2] Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female: [7:3] of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. [7:4] For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground. [7:5] And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him. [7:6] And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. [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. [7:8] Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground, [7:9] there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. [7:10] And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. [7:11] In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. [7:12] And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. [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; [7:14] they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. [7:15] And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. [7:16] And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in. [7:17] And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. [7:18] And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. [7:19] And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered. [7:20] Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. [7:21] And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: [7:22] all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. [7:23] And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark. [7:24] And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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Themes
Divine Providencetheology

Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.

God actively orders the unfolding of events — commanding the ark's construction, timing the flood, and preserving Noah's family — demonstrating the divine actively directing cosmic and human affairs toward intelligible ends.

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Eschatological Judgmentsoteriology

Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.

The flood functions as a collective cosmic judgment in which all life is sentenced to destruction and only the righteous remnant is preserved, though it is not 'final' in the eschatological sense.

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Gendercosmology

The Hermetic doctrine that a masculine-feminine generative principle operates on every plane of being, not only the biological — present at all times as a structural feature of creation itself. Distinct from divine_marriage (a specific reunification event or symbol) and aeons (paired divine beings arranged in syzygies, not a universal structural claim).

The passage repeatedly structures creation around the 'male and female' pairing as a generative principle present at every level of being — beasts, birds, creeping things, and humans — making the masculine-feminine dyad a structural feature of the created order.

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Living Godtheology

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

Jehovah is portrayed as a personal, active agent who commands, acts, shuts Noah in, and wills destruction — a dynamic, responsive divine reality rather than an abstract principle.

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