Genesis 6:17 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 6:17

15 And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred¹ cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

17 ^aAnd behold, I Myself am bringing ^bfloodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall ^cdie.

18 But I will establish My ^acovenant with you; and ^byou shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

19 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring ^atwo of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind ^awill come to you to keep them alive.

21 And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”

22 ^aThus Noah did; ^baccording to all that ^cGod commanded him, so he did.

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And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood—The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Genesis 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

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