Subject: How did Noah know about clean animals? |
Bible Note: Since God told Noah to gather the animals then Noah must have known before hand what was clean and what was unclean (Gen. 7:2). We assume that simply because it wasn't written down till later that it wasn't known before that time. In fact, oral tradition works quite well with details preserved for a long period of time. For instance, in the NT Gospels the pericope ab't the woman caught in the act of adultery wasn't written down in any of the gospels till the mid-4th century in Armenia mss. It is accepted, in part, because it bears all the ear-marks of being an oral tradition that was handed down through the centuries from the time of Christ. |