to whom the (
Hebrew characters) is always a solemn and permanent embodiment
of the divine will, and never a mere occasional provision
(Kraetzschmar, Bundesvorstg. 197 f.). The entering of the
ark is therefore not the condition to be fulfilled by Noah
under the covenant, but the condition which makes the
establishment of the promised covenant possible (Ho.).—Thou and thy sons, etc.] The enumeration is never omitted by P
except in 81; cf. 713 816. 18: ct. J in 71.—19 f. One pair of
each species of animals (fishes naturally excepted) is to be
taken into the ark. The distinction of clean and unclean
kinds belongs on the theory of P to a later dispensation—20.
The classification (which is repeated with slight
variations in 714. 21 8{19} 9{2f. 10}) here omits wild beasts ((Hebrew characters)):
v.i. on v.19.—(Hebrew characters) does not necessarily imply that the animals
came of themselves (Ra. IEz. al.), any more than (Hebrew characters) (v.19)
necessarily means that Noah had to catch them.—21. all food which is (or may be) eaten] according to the prescriptions
of 129f..—22. so did he] the pleonastic sentence is
peculiar to P; cf. esp. Ex. 4016 (also Ex. 76 1228. 50 3932. 42f.,
Nu. 154, and often).
VII. 6, 11, 13-17a. Commencement of the Flood.—These vv. (omitting 16b [J]) appear to form an uninterrupted section of the Priestly narrative, following immediately on 622.—6. Date of the Flood by the year of Noah's life. The number 600 is a Babylonian ner; it has been thought that the statement rests ultimately on a Bab. tradition.—11. This remarkably precise date introduces a sort of diary
3529 4933,—12 t. in all); elsewhere only in poetry (Holz. Einl. 341).—19.
(Hebrew characters)] (on anomalous pointing of art. see G-K. § 35 f (1)). [E] reads
(Hebrew characters) as in 817; and so G, which takes the word in the limited sense of
wild animals, reading [(Greek characters)]
(Greek characters) (see 714. 21 819).—(Hebrew characters)] GS (Hebrew characters) as in 79. 15. So also
v.20.—20. (Hebrew characters)] Ins. (Hebrew characters) with [E]GSVTO; the (Hebrew characters) is necessary to the
sense.—G has (Hebrew characters) before each class, but MT rightly confines it to the
heterogeneous (Hebrew characters) (Ho.). For (Hebrew characters), [E] G have (Hebrew characters).—21.
(Hebrew characters)] see on 129.—22. (Hebrew characters)] G Κύριος.
6. On the syntax of the time-relation, see G-K. § 164 a.—(Hebrew characters)] see 617.—11.
(Hebrew characters)—(Hebrew characters)] 'in the year of 600 years'; cf. G-K. § 134 o.—For
'17th day' G has '27th'; see p. 167 below.—(Hebrew characters)] 82, Mal. 310, =
(Hebrew characters), 2 Ki. 72. 19 = (Hebrew characters), Is. 2418. Apart from these phrases the
