September 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Did Noah take two of every animal on the ark, or were there many more? The story you know might not be the whole story.
In this deep-dive Bible study, Christopher Enoch continues the Genesis Series by meticulously breaking down Genesis chapter 7. Go beyond the surface-level reading of the flood narrative as Christopher compares five different ancient manuscripts side-by-side: the Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, the Syriac Peshitta, the Latin Vulgate, and the ancient Samaritan text.
Discover the fascinating discrepancies and clarifications these texts provide. We'll explore the critical distinction between the number of clean and unclean animals brought aboard—was it seven pairs or just seven total? This detail reveals profound insights into God's law, sacrifice, and provision, showing that concepts of righteousness and dietary laws existed long before Moses.
Christopher also discusses key verses about the "windows of heaven," the detailed timeline of the flood, and the powerful moment when God Himself shuts the door of the ark. If you want to increase your knowledge of the scriptures and understand the textual history of the Bible, this episode is for you.
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Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Genesis Chapter 7 00:00:58 - Verse 1: Comparing God's Command to Noah in Ancient Texts 00:03:02 - Verse 2: The REAL Number of Animals on the Ark (7 Pairs vs. 2) 00:05:23 - Why Were More Clean Animals Taken? 00:05:55 - Proof of God's Law Before Moses 00:06:26 - "Sevens" vs "Seven Pairs": What the Manuscripts Say 00:09:09 - Verse 3: How Many Birds Were on the Ark? 00:11:50 - Verse 4: The Prophecy of 40 Days of Rain 00:13:10 - Verse 5: Noah's Complete Obedience 00:13:56 - Verses 6-7: Noah's Age & Entering the Ark 00:18:03 - Verse 11: The Fountains of the Deep & "Windows of Heaven" 00:19:17 - Understanding Figurative Language in the Bible 00:24:36 - Verses 15-16: God Himself Shuts the Door 00:27:53 - Verses 17-20: The Flood Waters Rise and Cover the Earth 00:32:29 - Verses 21-23: All Life Outside the Ark is Destroyed 00:36:16 - Verse 24: The Waters Prevail for 150 Days
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Tonight we are going to be gettinginto the next chapter of Genesis.
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Yesterday, for Shabbat,we we finished Genesis chapter six.
So we're going to,get into Genesis chapter seven tonight,
and we're going to be talking abouteverything, pertaining to that chapter
and also, comparing the manuscripts,as always, as everything, as as always,
I should say,
I pray that everything that we share heretoday would be a great blessing to you.
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Increase your knowledge of the scriptures,your knowledge of the things of heaven,
your relationship with God,and your knowledge of the truth.
We're going to start with reading Genesischapter seven.
Now I'm doing somethinga little bit different tonight.
So I'm going to becomparing the master text,
which here is going to be the, W.E.B.
translation of it.
And the Septuagint and the Syriac or the
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to also the Vulgate and lastbut certainly not least, actually,
I should have said thisfirst, the Samaritan text,
because the Samaritan text is actuallythe oldest of all of the texts.
Okay, let's do this.
Genesis chapter seven, verse one,
Yahweh said to Noah, comewith all your household into the ship,
for I have seen your righteousnessbefore me in this generation.
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So the Septuagint over on the right side,it says, and the Lord God.
So again,instead of just simply Lord or God
or Yahweh or whatever the case is,it says the Lord God.
Okay.
And the Lord God said toNoah or Noah, enter
thou into or enter thouand thy family into the ark.
For you have I seen righteous before mein this generation.
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I like this a little bit better.
And God says, I have for you.
I have seen righteous as opposed toI have seen your righteousness.
I think it's a little bit clearer there.
The Syriac, which is,a little bit younger than the Septuagint.
Reads this way, and God simply God said toNoah, enter
you and all your house, to the ark,
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because youI have seen that you are righteous
before me in this generation,getting a little bit different words.
And again and so we do have thiskind of like this interchangeable,
the interchangeableness of the Yahweh Tetragrammaton,
God versus Lord God,like the Septuagint says here,
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the Vulgate Vulgateseems to be a little bit more simplistic.
And the Lord said to him, go, go
in, you and all your house into the ark.
For I have seen, just I have seen for you.
I have seen just just as I say, righteous,although just means the same thing
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for you.
I have seen just before mein this generation.
Okay.
Quick little peek into the Samaritan text.
Says Elohim, lamb, a lamb.
And I know I'm said to not, an aand an a a h.
Lamb and not a I enter into the ark,you and all your household.
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For you I have seen righteous before mein this generation.
Okay. Moving on here.
Genesis chapter seven, verse two.
Again,this is translated from the messianic.
You shall take seven pairs of every clean
animal with you,the male and his and his female.
Of the animalsthat are not clean, take two.
Okay.
You shall take seven pairsof every clean animal with you,
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the male and his female of the animalsthat are not clean, take two.
The male and his female.
So, you know, you see thisquite a bit in depictions of Noah.
And then in Noah's ark where you got like,You have like
two of every of every of every animal,one pair of every animal.
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But that's not that's not accurate.
It wasn't just if you see this is a thingright in, in the in the chapter
before we have, chapter six where it says,it just says two of every animal.
Right.
So let's, let's just quickly take a peekback here in Genesis chapter six.
Verse19 of every living thing of all flesh,
you shall bring two of every swordinto the ship to keep them alive with you.
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So right there just says two, right?
Just says two.
But it says nothing of of of seven.
But here it says two verse 20 of the birdsafter they're in kind of the livestock,
after they're kind of every creeping thingof, of the ground after.
It's kind two again, it's redundant here.
Two of every sort will come to youto keep them alive, you know.
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So we have it over and over again.
If, if all you had wasGenesis chapter six,
then you would think that it's just twoof every animal.
You would not even think of it being sevenof every animal or seven pairs.
And I'll get to that in just a moment,
because there are different translations,different interpretations.
Genesis chapter six. Let's do this again.
Genesis chapter six, verse19 of every living thing.
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See, somebody can make an argument,look at
it says every living thing of all flesh.
You shall bring two of every sort.
Male and female.
Then it repeats itself in verse22 of every.
So it will come to you.Only time will come to you.
Whether willingly.
You know,it'd be easy to make an argument like that
and willingly ignorewhat it says in the next chapter.
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Genesis chapter seven, verse two.
You shall take seven seven pairsof every clean of every clean animal.
So why?
Why would he wantseven pairs of every clean animal?
Well, it doesn't tell us exactly why.
Sorry, guys.
Doesn't tell us exactly why. But.
We can, Or we can speculate.
God likes clean animalsbetter than unclean animals.
God wanted the extra animalsto be used for sacrifice.
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Because, of course, God does not acceptthe sacrifices of unclean animals.
Okay?You don't sacrifice a pig. God forbid.
You know, or a lobster.
Okay, so another thing is to, the extra,the extra animals
instead of one pair, seven pairsfor for food.
I think because God doesn'twant us to be eating unclean.
Food.
Rathereating meat from only clean animals.
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So this is a thing, right?
So a lot of people think that thethat the law of Moses, the Torah,
was it only came through Moses.
It didn't exist before Moses.
Oh, really? Well, here, no one knows it.
He knew the differencebetween clean and unclean animals.
He knew exactly how to worship God.
He knew what it was like to be righteous.
He knew how to be righteous.
And therefore you'd have to know, the lawin order
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to know what righteousness isand to be able to obey God.
finish up here with this.
This one verse in the other,in the other translations.
So, Genesis chapterseven in the Septuagint, verse two,
and the clean cattletake in to the sevens.
Now, you see,it doesn't say literally seven pairs,
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but it says sevens clean cattle in sevens,male and female
and unclean cattle pairs, pairsmale and female.
So there are some people that say, well,it just meant
like seven, not seven pairs.
And then we have like the Bible,that makes it very clear
that it's seven pairs,not just simply seven.
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The Syriac translation,or the Syriac manuscripts.
And this is the pesquisa,this is actually the translation here
is called the placenta.Holy Bible translated.
The abbreviations I do believeis HPB te holy paci to Bible translated.
So Genesis chapter seven, verse two.
And of every pure pure beast
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take to yourselves seven by seven.
What does this mean to you?
Is this means seven pairs,or does this mean seven of each kind,
male and female, from the from the beastthat is not pure?
Two by two.
So the way this is worded,
you know, seven by seven and two by two,so, you know, you got only one pair.
If only one pairif two by two means, one pair of each,
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then seven by sevensshould mean seven of each.
Let's see how this is, you know, can betranslated or interpreted different ways.
The Vulgate says of all clean beaststakes seven and seven.
Excuse me, takes seven and seven,the male and female,
but of the beasts that are unclean,two and two the male and female.
So again, what does this two and two mean?
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Does that mean for her,or does this mean simply
one pair of every unclean animal?
And if that means
if two and two means one pair, then sevenand seven should mean only seven.
If two and two means simplyjust two, then seven and seven
should mean simply only sevenand not seven pairs.
You know what I'm saying?
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So the.
The, the Samaritan, again,the oldest text here says you should take
with you of every clean animalby sevens, a male and a female,
and of the beasts that are not cleanby twos, a male and the female.
I'm trying to look at itfrom the most objective way possible.
And, I, I could say, you know,you could take it both ways.
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You could say thatit was seven of each clean animal,
or seven of the clean animalsand two of the unclean.
Or you can say seven pairs of the cleanand you can say one pair of the unclean.
Or again, somebody could, could interpretthis differently and say two pairs
of the unclean.
At any rate, we have.
More than doublethe amount of clean animals.
More than triplethe amount of clean animals.
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Genesis seven, verse three.
This is a translationfrom the messianic text.
Also the birds of the sky,seven and seven, male and female,
to keep seedalive on the surface of all the earth.
The, let's do it. The Septuagint here.
And of and of clean flyingcreatures of the sky.
Sevens. Now again, look at.
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We have seven and sevenverses, simply sevens,
which makes it sound like is only sevenof of each kind of flying creature.
Whereas the the Web Bible puts it in a waythat's like there's 14
of every kind of flying creature,reading on here of the Septuagint,
male and female and of all unclean flyingcreatures, pairs,
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male and female to maintainseed on all the earth.
So again, in my as as
I read this, it sounds like thisparticular, Brenton Septuagint
makes it sound like there are only sevenof the clean and two of the unclean.
So, you know, not seven pairs
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versus one pair,whereas just seven versus a pair. I.
All right.
So let's read, this the Syriacverse three, also from A bird of Heaven,
seven by seven, male and female,to save seed on the face of all the earth.
So the message doesn'tsay anything about the, the, regulation
or the, command for the unclean birds,but the Septuagint and has that in there.
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And the Syriac does not have an in there.
So the Syrian kind of follow
is a little bit more like the messianictext compared to the Septuagint.
The Latin says of the fowlsalso of the air, seven and seven, the male
and female, that seed may be savedupon the face of the whole earth.
So again, the the,the Vulgate, or, yeah, the Vulgate.
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Makes sense. Sound like.
It's seven and seven, and it doesn't sayanything about the unclean. Now.
The Samaritan.
Genesis chapter seven, verse three.
And also of the clean birds.
Of the heavens by sevens, male and female,
to keep offspring alive on the faceof all the earth.
Okay,so we only have the Septuagint. Really?
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That is specificallyincluding the extra, detail of,
you know, the unclean birdsbeing by twos by pairs.
So there's a difference.
This is true.
Says it was probably sevenpairs of birds and clean animals.
Yes, only two of the unclean, because theyprobably didn't eat the unclean animals.
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Yes. Meiosis says sevenis better than two. Yes.
Well, yeah.
Especially when you got the clean animals.You want to keep those for sure.
For sacrifice and for food.
Genesis chapter seven, verse four.
I'll start, with the messianic here.
In seven days I will cause it to rainon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
I will destroy every living thing that Ihave made from the surface of the ground.
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The Septuagint says for yetseven days having passed, now
you notice having passages in italics,which means it's not in the air, it's
not in the manuscripts for seven daysI will bring rain upon the earth,
40 days and 40 nights, and I will blot outevery offspring which I have made
from the face of all the earth, offspring,instead of living thing.
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Syriac says, because after seven days
I am sending down rain upon the earth,40 days and 40 nights.
And so blot out everything that liveswhich I have made from the face
of the earth.
And the Vulgate says, yet
for yet a while and after seven daysI will reign upon the earth,
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40 days and 40 nights, and I will destroyevery substance, substance.
So instead of not just living thing or.
Offspring, offspring, it says substance.
I made from the face of the earth.
And again, the Samaritansimply says, for after seven more days
I will send rain on the on the earth40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe out
from the face of the landevery living thing that I have made.
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Okay. Verse five. Back to the messianic.
No one did everything that Yahwehcommanded him.
The Septuagint says,
And Noah or Noah did all things,whatever the Lord God,
instead of you got again,Lord God instead of Yahweh and, Syriac.
And no one did everythingthat the Lord Jehovah,
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Lord, Jehovah, being alland in all capitals commanded him.
And the Vulgate.
I'm sure the Vulgate kind of simplifiesit, as it always does.
And here again it does.
No, I did all things which the Lordjust simply the Lord had commanded him.
Okay. Moving on. Verse six.
Now the Samaritan text says, and not,the or Noah
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did according to all thatShammah had commanded him.
Genesis chapter seven, verse six.
No one was 600 years oldwhen the flood waters came on the earth.
Septuagint.
And Noah was 600 years oldwhen the flood water came upon the earth.
Syria.
And Noah was a son of 600 years,
and there was a flood of waterson the earth.
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Latin.
And Noah was 600 years old when the flood,when the waters of the flood overwhelmed
or overflowed the earth.
And the Samaritan saysexactly the same thing.
Verse seven. Back to the messianic text.
Noah went into the ship with his sons,his wife, and his sons wives.
Because of the flood waters.
Septuagintand and then went in Noah and his sons,
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and his wife,and his sons wives with him into the ark.
Because of the water of the flood.
Very interesting. Hold on a second.
Okay.
Genesis seven verseseven, in the Syriac or the Aramaic text.
And Noah entered, and his children,and his wife, and the wives of his sons
with him into the ark before the,from before the waters of the flood.
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And of course, Latin, the Vulgate.
Noah went in, and his sons,
his wife, and the wives of his sonswith him into the ark.
Because of the waters of the flood.Nothing.
No major differences there.
Verse eight. Mess. Reddick.
Clean animals, unclean animals, birds,and everything
that creeps on the ground went by pairs.
To Noah into the ship, male and female,as God commanded Noah.
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Again.
Another example.
How somebody can justpull this out of context.
Pull this just tunnel vision.
Say, look it again, clean animals.
Honestly.
In other words,how all the animals went in by pairs.
Not just,
you know, not sevens, not seven by sevenby seven, but rather just two by two.
That's it.
Of course, again, in context,
we know the clean animalswent in by sevens or by fourteens.
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However you want to interpret this,whereas the unclean
only went into, a pair each.
The Septuagint, verse eight and nine
of every clean flying creatures
and of unclean flying creaturesand of clean cattle,
and of unclean cattle,and of things that creep upon the earth.
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So you notice here the Septuagint again.
Has it's quite different in it.
It specifies.
Clean flying creatures.
Unclean flying creatures.
Clean cattle, unclean cattle.
And all the things that creepupon the earth.
Not that it's a contradiction,but rather that it's just very different.
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Verse nine.
Pairs went in to Noah into the ark,male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Syriac, and of the pure cattle,and of the herd of the herd animal
that was not pure, and of the bird,and of every creeper on the earth.
Two by two
they entered with Noah into the ark,male and female, as God commanded Noah.
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The Vulgate, and of the beasts,
clean and unclean, of the fowls,and of everything that moves on the earth.
Two and two went in to Noah into the ark,male and female,
as the Lord had commanded.
Noah. Interesting. Verse ten.
After the seven daysthe flood waters came on the earth.
Okay. Septuagint.
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And it came to pass after the seven daysthat the water of the flood
came upon the earth. Syria.
And seven days passed, and the water ofthe flood was on the earth, and Latin.
And after seven days were passed, thewaters of the flood overflowed the earth.
Now, I know we haven't really touchedon the Samaritan here.
The Samaritan everything is is pretty muchthe same, except for verse eight.
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In the in the messianic, it says of cleananimals, the man's erratic case
of clean beasts and of beaststhat are not clean, of the fowls
and all that creeps upfrom all that creeps upon the ground.
Whereas the Samaritan says of cleananimals and animals
that are not clean, and birds,and from all creeping on the ground.
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So from all.
Instead of simplyall that creeps on the ground,
you know, Miles says, yeah, tough job.
Exactly, exactly. Yeah.
Thank you. Miles.
Okay. All right.
Okay. So verse 11.
Miss Reddickand in the 600th year of Noah's life,
in the second month,on the 17th day of the month, on that day,
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all the fountains of the great deepburst open and the skies, windows opened.
I do believe thatthis is a figure of speech.
The sky is windows.
The, what's another translation saysI see the floodgates of heaven.
You know,I think this is a figure of speech
that just simply meansthat it rained and rained heavy.
I know some people take it like,super hyper literally.
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Like there actually were, like, windows.
I don't believe so.
The Septuagint, verse 11, in the 600th
year of the life of Noah,in the second month, on the 27th
day of the month, on this day,all the fountains of the abyss
were broken upand the flood gates of heaven were opened.
Syriac says, in the 600 yearyear of the years of the life of Noah,
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in the second month,in the 17th, in the month, in in it.
In this day.
All springs of the great depths exploded,
and the flood gates of heaven were opened.
Now, you know what? Maybe I should.
Maybe I should do thisbecause I know some people.
There are some people that are just,you know,
they take it to super, super,super literally.
back to the, the text here.
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It says the the windows.
The is windows opened.
I do think this isjust a figure of speech.
Of course.
You know, it's like today,you know, you, me, you can write a
a story about, you know, well,you know, it was raining cats and dogs.
Can you imagine if you know, you wrotea book, let's say, for example,
you wrote a book, and in the book
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you said, well, and such and such a dayit was raining cats and dogs.
And then 2000 years from now,somebody gets a hold of it.
Go, Cats and dogs.
Oh, my.
That must have been amazing.
That was a miracle.
Cats and dogs were actually fallingout of heaven.
Falling out of heaven from God.
He must have been creating themas they were going down, you know.
So I know, sorry for the sarcasm there,but I you know, it's just that,
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just making a point.
There are figures of speech that I thinkthat we need to, at least consider
that we have these figures of speech,and they're the flood gates of heaven.
I do believe it's simply it's talkingabout opening the flood gates of heaven,
simplytalking about the, rain raining heavy.
All right.
Making sure I got everything covered here.
When it comes to the Samaritan text.
books such as, Psalms, job especially,
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especially job,you know, very, very poetic, of course.
Song of Solomon as well.
Song of songs, very, very poetic.
So we have a lot of figures of speech,you know, it's not like, you know,
it's not likehis legs were real pillars of marble or.
It's not.
It's not like her.
It's not like herteeth were real sheep, you know?
So, you know,you can't always take the Bible literally.
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That's the thing, right? So. Yeah.Thank you. Destiny.
Okay, so.
Rain fell upon the earth for 40 daysand 40 nights.
It seems to me like this is the same.
Pretty much the same everywhereyou read it.
And it rained again from the mass reading.
It rained on the earth40 days and 40 nights.
I got this Syriac opened here,so we'll just go with that.
There.
There was rain on the earth, 40 daysand 40 nights.
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The Septuagint and the rain was uponthe earth, 40 days and 40 nights,
and the light and and rain fellupon the earth, 40 days and 40 nights.
No, no major discrepancies anywherewhen it comes to that.
As it says in the Samaritan.
Rain was upon the earth for 40 daysand 40 nights. Yes.
All right.
Nothing, nothing new there in, verse 13,
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the same day Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth,the sons of Noah and Noah's wife,
and the three wives of his sonswith them, entered into the ship.
Ship.
We spoke about this yesterday.
Not necessarily a ship.
Anyways. Should say Ark or box.
We spoke about this yesterday.
Container to be more accurate.
Samaritan or here we go again. Septuagint.
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On that very day. Enter Noah. Right?
No way. Sam. Sam and Japheth.
Yeah. Faith.
The sons of Noahand the wives of Noah and the.
And the three wives of his sonswith him into the ark.
The Syriac.
Verse 13.
On this day Noah entered the ark,and she came and and.
Yeah,yeah, sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah,
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and the three wives of his sons with him.
Now it doesn't say also entered the ark.
So in the Syriac has got enteredthe ark in the beginning.
The Septuagint.
Scott entered the ark,and at the very end of the verse.
Okay, so that's a difference. Vulgate.Of course I can.
I expect good old Jerome to be as simpleas possible here in the same same day.
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Noah and Sam and Ham and Japheth,his sons, his wife, his wife, his three,
the three wives of his sons with themwent into the ark.
Okay. And the Samaritan as well.
A little bit differenton the very same day.
Nuh And shame.
and. Yes. Fat.
Yes. Fat y effect.
The sons of nuh.
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And as wife and the three wivesof his sons with them entered the ark.
verse 14, Genesis chapter seven, verse 14.
They and every animal after its kind,all the livestock after their
after their kind, every creeping thingthat creeps on the earth after its kind.
In every bird after its kind, every burst,every every bird of every sort.
Septuagint.
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And all the wild beasts after their ownkind and all cattle after their kind.
And every reptile.
I noticed this before, where it says,creeping.
In the messianic text it says reptile.
In the Septuagint.
Every reptile
moving itself on the earth after its kind,and every flying bird after its kind.
Syria.
Those and every animal after its kind,in every beast after its kind.
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And every creeper.
Creeperthat creeps on the earth by their kind.
A lot of a lot of creeps, right?
Like creeps around today, aftertheir kinds that every bird by its kind
and every small birdand every winged creature.
If you ever see any creeps around,you just tell them that, you know, maybe
God shouldn't and allowed you guysto to enter the ark because.
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Now, Vulgate. Vulgate.
They know again, this is this is similarto what we just read here in the.
In the Syriac. Those.
Oh, yeah.
It says that in the, in the attic as well.
But not the Septuagint.
They and every beast after itsaccording to its kind, this is the Vulgate
and all the cattle in their kindand everything that moves on the earth
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according to its kind, and every fowlaccording to its kind, and every.
But there's a repeat here.I think this must be a.
Does it actually repeat itself?
Every fowl, according to its kind, inevery fowl according to its kind.
All birds and all that fly.
It says here. Okay.
Verse 15.
Messianic pairsfrom all flesh with the breath of life
in them went into the ship to Noah.
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I'll read verse16 to those who went in, went
in male and female of all flesh,as God commanded him.
Then Yahweh said, shut him in.
Let's go to the Septuagint.
It says, went into Noah, into into the arkpairs,
male and female, of all flesh, inwhich is the breath of life.
Okay, so it's the word
it says pretty much the same thing,but the wording is, different.
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The order of the words is differentthan the men's reading.
Verse 16.
And they and they that entered
went in male and female of all flesh,as God commanded Noah.
And the LordGod shut the ark outside of him.
Syriac.
They entered with Noahby two into the ark.
Two of all flesh that had in themthe spirit breath of life.
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I notice that the,Syriac to the Pashto uses
that word spirit breath as one word.
We saw this before verse 16 andthe entered male and female of all flesh.
They entered as God commanded him,and Lord
Jehovah shut in its door.
Vulgate.
Went in to Noahand went in to Noah into the ark.
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Two and two of all flesh.
Wherein was the breath of life.
And they that went in, went in maleand female, of all flesh,
as God commanded him.
And the Lord shut him in on the outside.
Okay. So that's verse 16.
A little bitdifferent here in the Samaritan.
So to compare, we have the messianic thatsays, and they went in male and female.
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Of all flesh.
Whereas the Samaritans says,and they entered male and female, comma
male and female, of all fleshentered as Elohim.
It's just a weird spelling here.
L o w w m it that l o
o w w m l l lo when had commanded him,
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and Shammah closed it behind him.
Shamar closed it in.
So aluhim in the in the Samaritan
would be in place of Elohimin the messianic.
And shamar shamar, I'll just spell it.
In case you're wondering, is ChristopherSpelling pronouncing it right?
Well, here's how it's spelled.Where are we here again?
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Here it is.
S h e h
m a a shame, shame.
Shamar.
So that would be in the place of the,Of the Tetragrammaton.
Right.
The four letter name of God.
As it says here, Yahweh shut him in.
So Yahweh in the web and the in the webBible is Shama in the Samaritan.
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Yeah.
So Syriac Lord Jehovah, shut in its door.
Septuagint.
Lord God, shut the ark outside of him. So?
No one did not.
No one did not shut the door.
No, man. Shut the door.It was God himself.
any door that God opens, no mancan shut any any door that God shuts.
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No man can open.
But exactly what destiny just said here.
I didn't even see this until just now.
Destiny says onlyElohim can shut or open the door.
Period. Yes. Absolutely yes. You got open.
If God opens a door,nobody can can shut it.
If God shuts the door, nobody can open it.
Verse 17. Again from the messianic.
The flood was 40 days on the earth.
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The waters increased and lifted upthe ship again should say ark or something
else. But.
And it was lifted up above the earth.
Okay. Simple stuff.
It rained 40 days and the ark floated.
I I'll read another verse or two here.
The waters rose and increasedgreatly on the earth,
and the shipfloated on the surface of the waters.
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Okay, let's let's just comparethat with, the Samaritan or,
excuse me, the Septuagint.
Now, notice here I just noticed something.
This is a Septuagint.
So earlier on.
No, no that was that was last chapter.
Right.
The Septuagint had different had adifferent numbering system here with the.
Yeah.
So Septuagint was like in Genesis
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chapter six,the Septuagint adds an extra verse.
But not in Genesis chapter seven.
Genesis chapter seven.The verses are. Consistent.
So Septuagint says, and the flood was uponthe earth 40 days and 40 nights.
And the water abounded greatly,and bore up the ark, and it was lifted
on high from off the earth.
It this morning it it justit's got more of an explanation here.
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It gives us more detail.
Not that it really gives usany meaningful, meaningful detail,
but there is more detail here.
Bore up the ark and it was lifted on highfrom off the earth,
as opposed to just simply the shipfloated on the surface of the waters.
Oh, I see what happened here.
So they took so the in the mass.
Reddick verse19 says the waters rose very high.
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Oh, wait a second.
No it's not.
I was thinking that maybe they, you know,the verses got a little bit
mixed up here, either in the messianicor the Septuagint.
Yeah.
So it's different
a little bit more, a little bitdifferent detail in the Septuagint.
Going on with the Septuagint, verse 18,the water prevailed and abounded
exceedingly upon the earth,and the ark was borne upon the water.
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Okay. Syriac.
The flood was 40 days on the earth,and, increased and the waters increased,
and they lifted the ark,and it was lifted up from the earth,
and the watersprevailed and increased much on the earth.
And the arkwas moving on the face of the waters.
A little bit different, like in other.
So in the Sep two, in the, messianic,it says floating or floated
the, Septuagint, the ark was born
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upon the waters, bear up the ark.
Bore up the ark, lifted it up.
Whereas in the Syriacit's like the ark was moving.
Latin.
The flood water, or the flood was 40 daysupon the earth, and the waters increased
and lifted up the ark on high from earth.
For they overflowed exceedingly,and filled all the face of the earth.
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And the ark was carried upon the waterscarried bore up.
Okay, nothing differentin the Samaritan, by the way,
according to the Samaritan, here there isthere is nothing different.
And there are no differencesfor the rest of the chapter.
That's at least nothing here. That's,one word.
Two for the word.
Two in, the only difference here from hereto the end of the chapter
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in the Samaritan is just in verse 23,the message reading text says,
and to the foul of the heaven,whereas in the Samaritan
it just says simplyto the birds of the heaven.
So everything elseis the same in the septa or the Samaritan.
So I'm not going to that kind of botherto read that sense.
It's the same message which, verse 19,the waters rose very high on the earth,
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and all the mountains that were underthe whole sky were covered.
Septuagint.
And the water prevailed exceedinglyupon the earth, and and covered
all the high mountainswhich were under heaven, All right.
Vulgate.
And the watersprevailed beyond measure upon the earth,
and all the high mountains were underthe whole heaven were covered.
Moving on to verse 20.
In the mass readings the watersrose 15 cubits higher than the.
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And the mountains were covered,and the waters rose 15 cubits higher.
That's 45ft higher.
And the mountains were covered.
Septuagint fifth. Dean.
Aquinas is 18in.
Okay.
22.5in. Higher.
Or 22.5ft, I should say Septuagint.
15 cubits upwards.
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Was the water raised? And?
And it covered all the high mountains.Syria.
The waters exceeded 15 cubits higherand covered the mountains.
The, the Vulgate and the waters was 15
cubits higher than the mountainswhich it covered.
Okay, a little bit clearer there.
I think.
If you were to interpret that to mean thatthe the waters were actually 15 cubits
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higher than the. and the mountains.
We got three more verses to,
to speak about here,and I'll wrap it up for the night.
One thing that really sticks out to me,and I know it's not in this chapter,
it's in the next,but one thing that really sticks out to me
is that, God, after the 40 days,after the 40 days,
40 days of the rainand all that kind of stuff,
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it wasn't like right awaythat, that they came out of the Ark.
They stayed there for months.
The ark was floating for months.Long time.
Moving on here, Genesis chapter seven,verse 21, in the messianic,
all flesh died that moved on the earth,including birds, livestock, animals,
every creeping thing that creeps onthe earth and every man in the Septuagint.
And there died all flesh that moved uponthe earth of flying creatures and cattle
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of of the wild beasts, and every reptileagain, reptile instead of creeping
reptile, moving upon the earth,and every man Syriac and all flesh
and it all fleshended, that creeps on the earth.
So again, there's a difference in orderhere, isn't it?
A difference, an order.
And by the way,the Syriac is older than the messianic.
Genesis chapter seven, verse 21.
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So it is in a different order here.
And again, this is as I understand,older than the messianic text.
This is the Aramaic,the Pashto, as they call it.
The, well, it's to be very specific.
It is the to Holy Bible translated.
Okay. So yeah, it's in a different order.
It says, and all flesh endsended that creeps on the, on the earth.
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So that is taken from like, you know,two thirds of the way through from,
you know, in the messianic textand putting it in the first, third.
Once again and all fleshended that creeps on the earth and heard,
heard animal and the wild beastsand all that, and all the creepers
that creep on the earth, and all childrenof men, everything that had the breath
of the spirit of life in its nostrils,
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of everything that was on dry land, died.
I know I went ahead a little bit there,but let's check out the mass.
Ready text all on the dry land inwhose nostrils was the breath
of the spirit of life, died.
In the Septuagint, and all things that,
which have the breath of lifeand whatever was on the dry land died.
Vulgate both of those versesand all flesh was destroyed.
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That moves that moved on the on the earth,upon the earth, both fowl and of cattle,
and of beasts, and of all creeping thingsthat creep upon the earth, and all men
and all things, whereinthere is the breath of life on earth died.
Okay.
So the next verse in the mosaic, every,every living thing was destroyed.
That was on the surface of the ground,
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including man, livestock, creepingthings and birds of the sky.
They were destroyed from the earth.
Only Noah was left.
And those who were with him in the ship.
Septuagint and God blotted out.
So again. Look at. Okay,I was just thinking.
I was just going to say the words that sayGod in the messianic text.
But here we have God, herewe have gone in, in italics,
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which means, again,that it's not in the manuscripts.
So that makes sense.
And God brought it on every,every offspring.
So again, instead of living thing,it says offspring which was upon
the face of the earth, both man and beastand reptiles and birds of the sky.
And they were blotted out from thefrom the earth.
And Noah was left alone.
And those with him in the ark. Syriac.
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And he and he blotted out all that
live on the face of the earth.
Children from from children of men,and unto the domestic animal,
and unto the creeper,and unto the bird of heaven.
They were wiped out from the earth,and no one remained.
And those with him in the ark.
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says and he destroyed all the substancethat was upon the earth, from man
to beast, and the creeping thingsand and fowls of the air.
And they were destroyed from the earth.
And Noah only remained.
And they that were with him in the ark.
Verse 24.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth
150 days. Wow.
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So same with the messianic text.
150 days. Same with the Septuagint.
The waters was raised over the earth150 days.
Syria and the waters increase on the earth150 days.
Yeah.
So there you go for the, for thefor the for chapter seven.
Chapter seven. We completed.
Tonight we are going to be gettinginto the next chapter of Genesis.
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Yesterday, for Shabbat,we we finished Genesis chapter six.
So we're going to,get into Genesis chapter seven tonight,
and we're going to be talking abouteverything, pertaining to that chapter
and also, comparing the manuscripts,as always, as everything, as as always,
I should say,
I pray that everything that we share heretoday would be a great blessing to you.
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Increase your knowledge of the scriptures,your knowledge of the things of heaven,
your relationship with God,and your knowledge of the truth.
We're going to start with reading Genesischapter seven.
Now I'm doing somethinga little bit different tonight.
So I'm going to becomparing the master text,
which here is going to be the, W.E.B.
translation of it.
And the Septuagint and the Syriac or the
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to also the Vulgate and lastbut certainly not least, actually,
I should have said thisfirst, the Samaritan text,
because the Samaritan text is actuallythe oldest of all of the texts.
Okay, let's do this.
Genesis chapter seven, verse one,
Yahweh said to Noah, comewith all your household into the ship,
for I have seen your righteousnessbefore me in this generation.
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So the Septuagint over on the right side,it says, and the Lord God.
So again,instead of just simply Lord or God
or Yahweh or whatever the case is,it says the Lord God.
Okay.
And the Lord God said toNoah or Noah, enter
thou into or enter thouand thy family into the ark.
For you have I seen righteous before mein this generation.
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I like this a little bit better.
And God says, I have for you.
I have seen righteous as opposed toI have seen your righteousness.
I think it's a little bit clearer there.
The Syriac, which is,a little bit younger than the Septuagint.
Reads this way, and God simply God said toNoah, enter
you and all your house, to the ark,
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because youI have seen that you are righteous
before me in this generation,getting a little bit different words.
And again and so we do have thiskind of like this interchangeable,
the interchangeableness of the Yahweh Tetragrammaton,
God versus Lord God,like the Septuagint says here,
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the Vulgate Vulgateseems to be a little bit more simplistic.
And the Lord said to him, go, go
in, you and all your house into the ark.
For I have seen, just I have seen for you.
I have seen just just as I say, righteous,although just means the same thing
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for you.
I have seen just before mein this generation.
Okay.
Quick little peek into the Samaritan text.
Says Elohim, lamb, a lamb.
And I know I'm said to not, an aand an a a h.
Lamb and not a I enter into the ark,you and all your household.
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For you I have seen righteous before mein this generation.
Okay. Moving on here.
Genesis chapter seven, verse two.
Again,this is translated from the messianic.
You shall take seven pairs of every clean
animal with you,the male and his and his female.
Of the animalsthat are not clean, take two.
Okay.
You shall take seven pairsof every clean animal with you,
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the male and his female of the animalsthat are not clean, take two.
The male and his female.
So, you know, you see thisquite a bit in depictions of Noah.
And then in Noah's ark where you got like,You have like
two of every of every of every animal,one pair of every animal.
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But that's not that's not accurate.
It wasn't just if you see this is a thingright in, in the in the chapter
before we have, chapter six where it says,it just says two of every animal.
Right.
So let's, let's just quickly take a peekback here in Genesis chapter six.
Verse19 of every living thing of all flesh,
you shall bring two of every swordinto the ship to keep them alive with you.
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So right there just says two, right?
Just says two.
But it says nothing of of of seven.
But here it says two verse 20 of the birdsafter they're in kind of the livestock,
after they're kind of every creeping thingof, of the ground after.
It's kind two again, it's redundant here.
Two of every sort will come to youto keep them alive, you know.
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So we have it over and over again.
If, if all you had wasGenesis chapter six,
then you would think that it's just twoof every animal.
You would not even think of it being sevenof every animal or seven pairs.
And I'll get to that in just a moment,
because there are different translations,different interpretations.
Genesis chapter six. Let's do this again.
Genesis chapter six, verse19 of every living thing.
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See, somebody can make an argument,look at
it says every living thing of all flesh.
You shall bring two of every sort.
Male and female.
Then it repeats itself in verse22 of every.
So it will come to you.Only time will come to you.
Whether willingly.
You know,it'd be easy to make an argument like that
and willingly ignorewhat it says in the next chapter.
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Genesis chapter seven, verse two.
You shall take seven seven pairsof every clean of every clean animal.
So why?
Why would he wantseven pairs of every clean animal?
Well, it doesn't tell us exactly why.
Sorry, guys.
Doesn't tell us exactly why. But.
We can, Or we can speculate.
God likes clean animalsbetter than unclean animals.
God wanted the extra animalsto be used for sacrifice.
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Because, of course, God does not acceptthe sacrifices of unclean animals.
Okay?You don't sacrifice a pig. God forbid.
You know, or a lobster.
Okay, so another thing is to, the extra,the extra animals
instead of one pair, seven pairsfor for food.
I think because God doesn'twant us to be eating unclean.
Food.
Rathereating meat from only clean animals.
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So this is a thing, right?
So a lot of people think that thethat the law of Moses, the Torah,
was it only came through Moses.
It didn't exist before Moses.
Oh, really? Well, here, no one knows it.
He knew the differencebetween clean and unclean animals.
He knew exactly how to worship God.
He knew what it was like to be righteous.
He knew how to be righteous.
And therefore you'd have to know, the lawin order
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to know what righteousness isand to be able to obey God.
finish up here with this.
This one verse in the other,in the other translations.
So, Genesis chapterseven in the Septuagint, verse two,
and the clean cattletake in to the sevens.
Now, you see,it doesn't say literally seven pairs,
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but it says sevens clean cattle in sevens,male and female
and unclean cattle pairs, pairsmale and female.
So there are some people that say, well,it just meant
like seven, not seven pairs.
And then we have like the Bible,that makes it very clear
that it's seven pairs,not just simply seven.
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The Syriac translation,or the Syriac manuscripts.
And this is the pesquisa,this is actually the translation here
is called the placenta.Holy Bible translated.
The abbreviations I do believeis HPB te holy paci to Bible translated.
So Genesis chapter seven, verse two.
And of every pure pure beast
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take to yourselves seven by seven.
What does this mean to you?
Is this means seven pairs,or does this mean seven of each kind,
male and female, from the from the beastthat is not pure?
Two by two.
So the way this is worded,
you know, seven by seven and two by two,so, you know, you got only one pair.
If only one pairif two by two means, one pair of each,
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then seven by sevensshould mean seven of each.
Let's see how this is, you know, can betranslated or interpreted different ways.
The Vulgate says of all clean beaststakes seven and seven.
Excuse me, takes seven and seven,the male and female,
but of the beasts that are unclean,two and two the male and female.
So again, what does this two and two mean?
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Does that mean for her,or does this mean simply
one pair of every unclean animal?
And if that means
if two and two means one pair, then sevenand seven should mean only seven.
If two and two means simplyjust two, then seven and seven
should mean simply only sevenand not seven pairs.
You know what I'm saying?
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So the.
The, the Samaritan, again,the oldest text here says you should take
with you of every clean animalby sevens, a male and a female,
and of the beasts that are not cleanby twos, a male and the female.
I'm trying to look at itfrom the most objective way possible.
And, I, I could say, you know,you could take it both ways.
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You could say thatit was seven of each clean animal,
or seven of the clean animalsand two of the unclean.
Or you can say seven pairs of the cleanand you can say one pair of the unclean.
Or again, somebody could, could interpretthis differently and say two pairs
of the unclean.
At any rate, we have.
More than doublethe amount of clean animals.
More than triplethe amount of clean animals.
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Genesis seven, verse three.
This is a translationfrom the messianic text.
Also the birds of the sky,seven and seven, male and female,
to keep seedalive on the surface of all the earth.
The, let's do it. The Septuagint here.
And of and of clean flyingcreatures of the sky.
Sevens. Now again, look at.
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We have seven and sevenverses, simply sevens,
which makes it sound like is only sevenof of each kind of flying creature.
Whereas the the Web Bible puts it in a waythat's like there's 14
of every kind of flying creature,reading on here of the Septuagint,
male and female and of all unclean flyingcreatures, pairs,
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male and female to maintainseed on all the earth.
So again, in my as as
I read this, it sounds like thisparticular, Brenton Septuagint
makes it sound like there are only sevenof the clean and two of the unclean.
So, you know, not seven pairs
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versus one pair,whereas just seven versus a pair. I.
All right.
So let's read, this the Syriacverse three, also from A bird of Heaven,
seven by seven, male and female,to save seed on the face of all the earth.
So the message doesn'tsay anything about the, the, regulation
or the, command for the unclean birds,but the Septuagint and has that in there.
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And the Syriac does not have an in there.
So the Syrian kind of follow
is a little bit more like the messianictext compared to the Septuagint.
The Latin says of the fowlsalso of the air, seven and seven, the male
and female, that seed may be savedupon the face of the whole earth.
So again, the the,the Vulgate, or, yeah, the Vulgate.
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Makes sense. Sound like.
It's seven and seven, and it doesn't sayanything about the unclean. Now.
The Samaritan.
Genesis chapter seven, verse three.
And also of the clean birds.
Of the heavens by sevens, male and female,
to keep offspring alive on the faceof all the earth.
Okay,so we only have the Septuagint. Really?
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That is specificallyincluding the extra, detail of,
you know, the unclean birdsbeing by twos by pairs.
So there's a difference.
This is true.
Says it was probably sevenpairs of birds and clean animals.
Yes, only two of the unclean, because theyprobably didn't eat the unclean animals.
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Yes. Meiosis says sevenis better than two. Yes.
Well, yeah.
Especially when you got the clean animals.You want to keep those for sure.
For sacrifice and for food.
Genesis chapter seven, verse four.
I'll start, with the messianic here.
In seven days I will cause it to rainon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
I will destroy every living thing that Ihave made from the surface of the ground.
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The Septuagint says for yetseven days having passed, now
you notice having passages in italics,which means it's not in the air, it's
not in the manuscripts for seven daysI will bring rain upon the earth,
40 days and 40 nights, and I will blot outevery offspring which I have made
from the face of all the earth, offspring,instead of living thing.
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Syriac says, because after seven days
I am sending down rain upon the earth,40 days and 40 nights.
And so blot out everything that liveswhich I have made from the face
of the earth.
And the Vulgate says, yet
for yet a while and after seven daysI will reign upon the earth,
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40 days and 40 nights, and I will destroyevery substance, substance.
So instead of not just living thing or.
Offspring, offspring, it says substance.
I made from the face of the earth.
And again, the Samaritansimply says, for after seven more days
I will send rain on the on the earth40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe out
from the face of the landevery living thing that I have made.
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Okay. Verse five. Back to the messianic.
No one did everything that Yahwehcommanded him.
The Septuagint says,
And Noah or Noah did all things,whatever the Lord God,
instead of you got again,Lord God instead of Yahweh and, Syriac.
And no one did everythingthat the Lord Jehovah,
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Lord, Jehovah, being alland in all capitals commanded him.
And the Vulgate.
I'm sure the Vulgate kind of simplifiesit, as it always does.
And here again it does.
No, I did all things which the Lordjust simply the Lord had commanded him.
Okay. Moving on. Verse six.
Now the Samaritan text says, and not,the or Noah
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did according to all thatShammah had commanded him.
Genesis chapter seven, verse six.
No one was 600 years oldwhen the flood waters came on the earth.
Septuagint.
And Noah was 600 years oldwhen the flood water came upon the earth.
Syria.
And Noah was a son of 600 years,
and there was a flood of waterson the earth.
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Latin.
And Noah was 600 years old when the flood,when the waters of the flood overwhelmed
or overflowed the earth.
And the Samaritan saysexactly the same thing.
Verse seven. Back to the messianic text.
Noah went into the ship with his sons,his wife, and his sons wives.
Because of the flood waters.
Septuagintand and then went in Noah and his sons,
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and his wife,and his sons wives with him into the ark.
Because of the water of the flood.
Very interesting. Hold on a second.
Okay.
Genesis seven verseseven, in the Syriac or the Aramaic text.
And Noah entered, and his children,and his wife, and the wives of his sons
with him into the ark before the,from before the waters of the flood.
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And of course, Latin, the Vulgate.
Noah went in, and his sons,
his wife, and the wives of his sonswith him into the ark.
Because of the waters of the flood.Nothing.
No major differences there.
Verse eight. Mess. Reddick.
Clean animals, unclean animals, birds,and everything
that creeps on the ground went by pairs.
To Noah into the ship, male and female,as God commanded Noah.
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Again.
Another example.
How somebody can justpull this out of context.
Pull this just tunnel vision.
Say, look it again, clean animals.
Honestly.
In other words,how all the animals went in by pairs.
Not just,
you know, not sevens, not seven by sevenby seven, but rather just two by two.
That's it.
Of course, again, in context,
we know the clean animalswent in by sevens or by fourteens.
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However you want to interpret this,whereas the unclean
only went into, a pair each.
The Septuagint, verse eight and nine
of every clean flying creatures
and of unclean flying creaturesand of clean cattle,
and of unclean cattle,and of things that creep upon the earth.
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So you notice here the Septuagint again.
Has it's quite different in it.
It specifies.
Clean flying creatures.
Unclean flying creatures.
Clean cattle, unclean cattle.
And all the things that creepupon the earth.
Not that it's a contradiction,but rather that it's just very different.
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Verse nine.
Pairs went in to Noah into the ark,male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Syriac, and of the pure cattle,and of the herd of the herd animal
that was not pure, and of the bird,and of every creeper on the earth.
Two by two
they entered with Noah into the ark,male and female, as God commanded Noah.
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The Vulgate, and of the beasts,
clean and unclean, of the fowls,and of everything that moves on the earth.
Two and two went in to Noah into the ark,male and female,
as the Lord had commanded.
Noah. Interesting. Verse ten.
After the seven daysthe flood waters came on the earth.
Okay. Septuagint.
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And it came to pass after the seven daysthat the water of the flood
came upon the earth. Syria.
And seven days passed, and the water ofthe flood was on the earth, and Latin.
And after seven days were passed, thewaters of the flood overflowed the earth.
Now, I know we haven't really touchedon the Samaritan here.
The Samaritan everything is is pretty muchthe same, except for verse eight.
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In the in the messianic, it says of cleananimals, the man's erratic case
of clean beasts and of beaststhat are not clean, of the fowls
and all that creeps upfrom all that creeps upon the ground.
Whereas the Samaritan says of cleananimals and animals
that are not clean, and birds,and from all creeping on the ground.
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So from all.
Instead of simplyall that creeps on the ground,
you know, Miles says, yeah, tough job.
Exactly, exactly. Yeah.
Thank you. Miles.
Okay. All right.
Okay. So verse 11.
Miss Reddickand in the 600th year of Noah's life,
in the second month,on the 17th day of the month, on that day,
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all the fountains of the great deepburst open and the skies, windows opened.
I do believe thatthis is a figure of speech.
The sky is windows.
The, what's another translation saysI see the floodgates of heaven.
You know,I think this is a figure of speech
that just simply meansthat it rained and rained heavy.
I know some people take it like,super hyper literally.
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Like there actually were, like, windows.
I don't believe so.
The Septuagint, verse 11, in the 600th
year of the life of Noah,in the second month, on the 27th
day of the month, on this day,all the fountains of the abyss
were broken upand the flood gates of heaven were opened.
Syriac says, in the 600 yearyear of the years of the life of Noah,
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in the second month,in the 17th, in the month, in in it.
In this day.
All springs of the great depths exploded,
and the flood gates of heaven were opened.
Now, you know what? Maybe I should.
Maybe I should do thisbecause I know some people.
There are some people that are just,you know,
they take it to super, super,super literally.
back to the, the text here.
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It says the the windows.
The is windows opened.
I do think this isjust a figure of speech.
Of course.
You know, it's like today,you know, you, me, you can write a
a story about, you know, well,you know, it was raining cats and dogs.
Can you imagine if you know, you wrotea book, let's say, for example,
you wrote a book, and in the book
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you said, well, and such and such a dayit was raining cats and dogs.
And then 2000 years from now,somebody gets a hold of it.
Go, Cats and dogs.
Oh, my.
That must have been amazing.
That was a miracle.
Cats and dogs were actually fallingout of heaven.
Falling out of heaven from God.
He must have been creating themas they were going down, you know.
So I know, sorry for the sarcasm there,but I you know, it's just that,
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just making a point.
There are figures of speech that I thinkthat we need to, at least consider
that we have these figures of speech,and they're the flood gates of heaven.
I do believe it's simply it's talkingabout opening the flood gates of heaven,
simplytalking about the, rain raining heavy.
All right.
Making sure I got everything covered here.
When it comes to the Samaritan text.
books such as, Psalms, job especially,
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especially job,you know, very, very poetic, of course.
Song of Solomon as well.
Song of songs, very, very poetic.
So we have a lot of figures of speech,you know, it's not like, you know,
it's not likehis legs were real pillars of marble or.
It's not.
It's not like her.
It's not like herteeth were real sheep, you know?
So, you know,you can't always take the Bible literally.
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That's the thing, right? So. Yeah.Thank you. Destiny.
Okay, so.
Rain fell upon the earth for 40 daysand 40 nights.
It seems to me like this is the same.
Pretty much the same everywhereyou read it.
And it rained again from the mass reading.
It rained on the earth40 days and 40 nights.
I got this Syriac opened here,so we'll just go with that.
There.
There was rain on the earth, 40 daysand 40 nights.
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The Septuagint and the rain was uponthe earth, 40 days and 40 nights,
and the light and and rain fellupon the earth, 40 days and 40 nights.
No, no major discrepancies anywherewhen it comes to that.
As it says in the Samaritan.
Rain was upon the earth for 40 daysand 40 nights. Yes.
All right.
Nothing, nothing new there in, verse 13,
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the same day Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth,the sons of Noah and Noah's wife,
and the three wives of his sonswith them, entered into the ship.
Ship.
We spoke about this yesterday.
Not necessarily a ship.
Anyways. Should say Ark or box.
We spoke about this yesterday.
Container to be more accurate.
Samaritan or here we go again. Septuagint.
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On that very day. Enter Noah. Right?
No way. Sam. Sam and Japheth.
Yeah. Faith.
The sons of Noahand the wives of Noah and the.
And the three wives of his sonswith him into the ark.
The Syriac.
Verse 13.
On this day Noah entered the ark,and she came and and.
Yeah,yeah, sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah,
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and the three wives of his sons with him.
Now it doesn't say also entered the ark.
So in the Syriac has got enteredthe ark in the beginning.
The Septuagint.
Scott entered the ark,and at the very end of the verse.
Okay, so that's a difference. Vulgate.Of course I can.
I expect good old Jerome to be as simpleas possible here in the same same day.
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Noah and Sam and Ham and Japheth,his sons, his wife, his wife, his three,
the three wives of his sons with themwent into the ark.
Okay. And the Samaritan as well.
A little bit differenton the very same day.
Nuh And shame.
and. Yes. Fat.
Yes. Fat y effect.
The sons of nuh.
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And as wife and the three wivesof his sons with them entered the ark.
verse 14, Genesis chapter seven, verse 14.
They and every animal after its kind,all the livestock after their
after their kind, every creeping thingthat creeps on the earth after its kind.
In every bird after its kind, every burst,every every bird of every sort.
Septuagint.
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And all the wild beasts after their ownkind and all cattle after their kind.
And every reptile.
I noticed this before, where it says,creeping.
In the messianic text it says reptile.
In the Septuagint.
Every reptile
moving itself on the earth after its kind,and every flying bird after its kind.
Syria.
Those and every animal after its kind,in every beast after its kind.
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And every creeper.
Creeperthat creeps on the earth by their kind.
A lot of a lot of creeps, right?
Like creeps around today, aftertheir kinds that every bird by its kind
and every small birdand every winged creature.
If you ever see any creeps around,you just tell them that, you know, maybe
God shouldn't and allowed you guysto to enter the ark because.
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Now, Vulgate. Vulgate.
They know again, this is this is similarto what we just read here in the.
In the Syriac. Those.
Oh, yeah.
It says that in the, in the attic as well.
But not the Septuagint.
They and every beast after itsaccording to its kind, this is the Vulgate
and all the cattle in their kindand everything that moves on the earth
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according to its kind, and every fowlaccording to its kind, and every.
But there's a repeat here.I think this must be a.
Does it actually repeat itself?
Every fowl, according to its kind, inevery fowl according to its kind.
All birds and all that fly.
It says here. Okay.
Verse 15.
Messianic pairsfrom all flesh with the breath of life
in them went into the ship to Noah.
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I'll read verse16 to those who went in, went
in male and female of all flesh,as God commanded him.
Then Yahweh said, shut him in.
Let's go to the Septuagint.
It says, went into Noah, into into the arkpairs,
male and female, of all flesh, inwhich is the breath of life.
Okay, so it's the word
it says pretty much the same thing,but the wording is, different.
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The order of the words is differentthan the men's reading.
Verse 16.
And they and they that entered
went in male and female of all flesh,as God commanded Noah.
And the LordGod shut the ark outside of him.
Syriac.
They entered with Noahby two into the ark.
Two of all flesh that had in themthe spirit breath of life.
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I notice that the,Syriac to the Pashto uses
that word spirit breath as one word.
We saw this before verse 16 andthe entered male and female of all flesh.
They entered as God commanded him,and Lord
Jehovah shut in its door.
Vulgate.
Went in to Noahand went in to Noah into the ark.
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Two and two of all flesh.
Wherein was the breath of life.
And they that went in, went in maleand female, of all flesh,
as God commanded him.
And the Lord shut him in on the outside.
Okay. So that's verse 16.
A little bitdifferent here in the Samaritan.
So to compare, we have the messianic thatsays, and they went in male and female.
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Of all flesh.
Whereas the Samaritans says,and they entered male and female, comma
male and female, of all fleshentered as Elohim.
It's just a weird spelling here.
L o w w m it that l o
o w w m l l lo when had commanded him,
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and Shammah closed it behind him.
Shamar closed it in.
So aluhim in the in the Samaritan
would be in place of Elohimin the messianic.
And shamar shamar, I'll just spell it.
In case you're wondering, is ChristopherSpelling pronouncing it right?
Well, here's how it's spelled.Where are we here again?
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Here it is.
S h e h
m a a shame, shame.
Shamar.
So that would be in the place of the,Of the Tetragrammaton.
Right.
The four letter name of God.
As it says here, Yahweh shut him in.
So Yahweh in the web and the in the webBible is Shama in the Samaritan.
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Yeah.
So Syriac Lord Jehovah, shut in its door.
Septuagint.
Lord God, shut the ark outside of him. So?
No one did not.
No one did not shut the door.
No, man. Shut the door.It was God himself.
any door that God opens, no mancan shut any any door that God shuts.
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No man can open.
But exactly what destiny just said here.
I didn't even see this until just now.
Destiny says onlyElohim can shut or open the door.
Period. Yes. Absolutely yes. You got open.
If God opens a door,nobody can can shut it.
If God shuts the door, nobody can open it.
Verse 17. Again from the messianic.
The flood was 40 days on the earth.
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The waters increased and lifted upthe ship again should say ark or something
else. But.
And it was lifted up above the earth.
Okay. Simple stuff.
It rained 40 days and the ark floated.
I I'll read another verse or two here.
The waters rose and increasedgreatly on the earth,
and the shipfloated on the surface of the waters.
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Okay, let's let's just comparethat with, the Samaritan or,
excuse me, the Septuagint.
Now, notice here I just noticed something.
This is a Septuagint.
So earlier on.
No, no that was that was last chapter.
Right.
The Septuagint had different had adifferent numbering system here with the.
Yeah.
So Septuagint was like in Genesis
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chapter six,the Septuagint adds an extra verse.
But not in Genesis chapter seven.
Genesis chapter seven.The verses are. Consistent.
So Septuagint says, and the flood was uponthe earth 40 days and 40 nights.
And the water abounded greatly,and bore up the ark, and it was lifted
on high from off the earth.
It this morning it it justit's got more of an explanation here.
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It gives us more detail.
Not that it really gives usany meaningful, meaningful detail,
but there is more detail here.
Bore up the ark and it was lifted on highfrom off the earth,
as opposed to just simply the shipfloated on the surface of the waters.
Oh, I see what happened here.
So they took so the in the mass.
Reddick verse19 says the waters rose very high.
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Oh, wait a second.
No it's not.
I was thinking that maybe they, you know,the verses got a little bit
mixed up here, either in the messianicor the Septuagint.
Yeah.
So it's different
a little bit more, a little bitdifferent detail in the Septuagint.
Going on with the Septuagint, verse 18,the water prevailed and abounded
exceedingly upon the earth,and the ark was borne upon the water.
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Okay. Syriac.
The flood was 40 days on the earth,and, increased and the waters increased,
and they lifted the ark,and it was lifted up from the earth,
and the watersprevailed and increased much on the earth.
And the arkwas moving on the face of the waters.
A little bit different, like in other.
So in the Sep two, in the, messianic,it says floating or floated
the, Septuagint, the ark was born
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upon the waters, bear up the ark.
Bore up the ark, lifted it up.
Whereas in the Syriacit's like the ark was moving.
Latin.
The flood water, or the flood was 40 daysupon the earth, and the waters increased
and lifted up the ark on high from earth.
For they overflowed exceedingly,and filled all the face of the earth.
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And the ark was carried upon the waterscarried bore up.
Okay, nothing differentin the Samaritan, by the way,
according to the Samaritan, here there isthere is nothing different.
And there are no differencesfor the rest of the chapter.
That's at least nothing here. That's,one word.
Two for the word.
Two in, the only difference here from hereto the end of the chapter
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in the Samaritan is just in verse 23,the message reading text says,
and to the foul of the heaven,whereas in the Samaritan
it just says simplyto the birds of the heaven.
So everything elseis the same in the septa or the Samaritan.
So I'm not going to that kind of botherto read that sense.
It's the same message which, verse 19,the waters rose very high on the earth,
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and all the mountains that were underthe whole sky were covered.
Septuagint.
And the water prevailed exceedinglyupon the earth, and and covered
all the high mountainswhich were under heaven, All right.
Vulgate.
And the watersprevailed beyond measure upon the earth,
and all the high mountains were underthe whole heaven were covered.
Moving on to verse 20.
In the mass readings the watersrose 15 cubits higher than the.
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And the mountains were covered,and the waters rose 15 cubits higher.
That's 45ft higher.
And the mountains were covered.
Septuagint fifth. Dean.
Aquinas is 18in.
Okay.
22.5in. Higher.
Or 22.5ft, I should say Septuagint.
15 cubits upwards.
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Was the water raised? And?
And it covered all the high mountains.Syria.
The waters exceeded 15 cubits higherand covered the mountains.
The, the Vulgate and the waters was 15
cubits higher than the mountainswhich it covered.
Okay, a little bit clearer there.
I think.
If you were to interpret that to mean thatthe the waters were actually 15 cubits
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higher than the. and the mountains.
We got three more verses to,
to speak about here,and I'll wrap it up for the night.
One thing that really sticks out to me,and I know it's not in this chapter,
it's in the next,but one thing that really sticks out to me
is that, God, after the 40 days,after the 40 days,
40 days of the rainand all that kind of stuff,
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it wasn't like right awaythat, that they came out of the Ark.
They stayed there for months.
The ark was floating for months.Long time.
Moving on here, Genesis chapter seven,verse 21, in the messianic,
all flesh died that moved on the earth,including birds, livestock, animals,
every creeping thing that creeps onthe earth and every man in the Septuagint.
And there died all flesh that moved uponthe earth of flying creatures and cattle
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of of the wild beasts, and every reptileagain, reptile instead of creeping
reptile, moving upon the earth,and every man Syriac and all flesh
and it all fleshended, that creeps on the earth.
So again, there's a difference in orderhere, isn't it?
A difference, an order.
And by the way,the Syriac is older than the messianic.
Genesis chapter seven, verse 21.
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So it is in a different order here.
And again, this is as I understand,older than the messianic text.
This is the Aramaic,the Pashto, as they call it.
The, well, it's to be very specific.
It is the to Holy Bible translated.
Okay. So yeah, it's in a different order.
It says, and all flesh endsended that creeps on the, on the earth.
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So that is taken from like, you know,two thirds of the way through from,
you know, in the messianic textand putting it in the first, third.
Once again and all fleshended that creeps on the earth and heard,
heard animal and the wild beastsand all that, and all the creepers
that creep on the earth, and all childrenof men, everything that had the breath
of the spirit of life in its nostrils,
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of everything that was on dry land, died.
I know I went ahead a little bit there,but let's check out the mass.
Ready text all on the dry land inwhose nostrils was the breath
of the spirit of life, died.
In the Septuagint, and all things that,
which have the breath of lifeand whatever was on the dry land died.
Vulgate both of those versesand all flesh was destroyed.
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That moves that moved on the on the earth,upon the earth, both fowl and of cattle,
and of beasts, and of all creeping thingsthat creep upon the earth, and all men
and all things, whereinthere is the breath of life on earth died.
Okay.
So the next verse in the mosaic, every,every living thing was destroyed.
That was on the surface of the ground,
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including man, livestock, creepingthings and birds of the sky.
They were destroyed from the earth.
Only Noah was left.
And those who were with him in the ship.
Septuagint and God blotted out.
So again. Look at. Okay,I was just thinking.
I was just going to say the words that sayGod in the messianic text.
But here we have God, herewe have gone in, in italics,
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which means, again,that it's not in the manuscripts.
So that makes sense.
And God brought it on every,every offspring.
So again, instead of living thing,it says offspring which was upon
the face of the earth, both man and beastand reptiles and birds of the sky.
And they were blotted out from thefrom the earth.
And Noah was left alone.
And those with him in the ark. Syriac.
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And he and he blotted out all that
live on the face of the earth.
Children from from children of men,and unto the domestic animal,
and unto the creeper,and unto the bird of heaven.
They were wiped out from the earth,and no one remained.
And those with him in the ark.
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says and he destroyed all the substancethat was upon the earth, from man
to beast, and the creeping thingsand and fowls of the air.
And they were destroyed from the earth.
And Noah only remained.
And they that were with him in the ark.
Verse 24.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth
150 days. Wow.
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So same with the messianic text.
150 days. Same with the Septuagint.
The waters was raised over the earth150 days.
Syria and the waters increase on the earth150 days.
Yeah.
So there you go for the, for thefor the for chapter seven.
Chapter seven. We completed.
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