Genesis 7

Genesis 7 recounts the story of the global flood. Here's a summary of the key events:

1. God commands Noah to enter the ark with his family (wife, three sons, and their wives) because He found Noah righteous.

2. God instructs Noah to take seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean animals, plus seven pairs of birds, to preserve their species.

3. Noah is told that, in seven days, God will send rain for forty days and nights to destroy all living creatures on earth.

4. Noah, at 600 years old, follows God's instructions completely, bringing his family and the animals into the ark.

5. On the seventeenth day of the second month "were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

6. Rain falls for forty days and forty nights, causing waters to rise and lift the ark above the earth.

7. The waters prevail so mightily that they cover even the highest mountains under heaven by more than twenty feet.

8. Every living thing on dry land — humans, animals, birds, and creatures that move on the ground — perishes in the flood.

9. Only Noah and those with him in the ark survive.

10. The waters flood the earth for 150 days.

This chapter emphasizes Noah's obedience to God's commands and the complete destruction of life outside the ark, demonstrating how God protects those who trust Him from the destructiveness of sin.