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NASB | Genesis 6:18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:18 "But I will establish My covenant (solemn promise, formal agreement) with you; and you shall come into the ark--you and your [three] sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. |
Subject: Noah, a bad evangelist? |
Bible Note: Hello, Iktoose. First off, I so appreciate many of your notes you have written the past week. One note you offered today puzzled me, however. Every time someone offers that same conclusion of Noah spending 120 years preaching as he built the ark, I’m puzzled with “how can they conclude such?” Doing the math – it doesn’t add up. I’ll quote from my Jewish Bible (Masoretic Text and the JPS 1917 Edition). Gen 5:32 “And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth”. Gen 6:3 “And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.’” But wait. This doesn’t state anything about Noah building the ark. Right? The day that the Lord first instructed Noah to build the ark Noah had already had his three sons, and those three sons were grown and married. Back to my Jewish Bible showing the instructions God gave to Noah INCLUDED Noah’s family. Gen. 6:18 “But I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.” According to 5:32 – Noah was 500 years old when he had his sons. The original “contract” mentions, “thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives WITH THEE,” tells us they were already around when the “ark order” was issued. Gen 7:11 tells us, “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Unless Noah began building and preaching 20 years before God told him to, and his sons got married from their mother’s womb, it doesn’t add up. Besides the fact that Shem was 98 years old when the flood came… and he was younger than Japheth… Anyway, I have heard too many preachers attempt to prove the "120-year preach while you build the ark story” only to be kidding themselves and deceiving their congregation. Otherwise, keep up the good work (words) :) T’oma |