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18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

God’s Covenant with Creation

20 Then Noah built an aaltar to the Lord, and took of bevery clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered cburnt offerings on the altar.  
21 And the Lord smelled aa soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again bcurse the ground for man’s sake, although the cimagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; dnor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. 
22 “While the earth aremains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And bday and night
Shall not cease.” 
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What Does Genesis 8:20 Mean?



Genesis 8:20

The clean and unclean laws are specifically mentioned early in God's Word, in the account of the Noachian Flood, when Noah was commanded to take "seven each of every clean animal" (Genesis 7:2). When he and his family were back on dry land, Noah "took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar" (Genesis 8:20). This suggests that these laws were known and practiced before the Flood'even from the earliest days of mankind (compare Genesis 4:4, Abel's acceptable offering). Since there were no Jews or Israelites then-not even any Hebrews-these laws are obviously for all humankind.

John O. Reid
Did God Change the Law of Clean and Unclean Meats?




Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Genesis 8:20:

Genesis 4:1-8
Genesis 6:5-8
Genesis 7:2
Genesis 8:20
Amos 5:21-24
Ephesians 3:2
Ephesians 3:2
1 Peter 2:5


 
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