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flocked to it; but man had become more brutish than the brutes themselves, and did not know, did not consider, Isa 1:3.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives
with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of
everything that creepeth upon the earth,
9 there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had commanded Noah.
There went in two and two—Doubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The number would not be so large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It has been calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinct species of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form, size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and other circumstances. There went in two and two—Doubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The number would not be as large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It has been calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinct species of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form, size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and other circumstances.
God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, Ge 2:19.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood
were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Here is, I The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story.
It was in the 600th year of Noah's life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are reckoned, not by the reigns of the giants, but the lives of the patriarchs; saints are of more account with God than princes. The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.