“And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.”
Cross references: : 1 Pet. 2:5 In respect of the rest of the world, and because he had a desire to serve God and live uprightly. Or, generation.
“Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.”
Which might be offered in sacrifice, whereof six were for breed, and the seventh for sacrifice.
“And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.”
Matt. 24:37 ; Luke 27:26 ; 1 Pet. 3:20
“Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.”
God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, Gen. 2:19 .
“In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:”
Both the waters in the earth did overflow, and also the clouds poured down. Which was about the beginning of May, when all things did most flourish.
“Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.”
Every living thing that God would have to be preserved on earth, came into the Ark to Noah.
“And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.”
Or, shut it upon him. So that God’s secret power defended him against the rage of the mighty waters.
“And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.”
That is, God. Learn what it is to obey God only, and to forsake the multitude, 1 Pet. 3:20 .