创世记——第七章

约拿

创世记第七章： 7:1 耶和华对挪亚说：“你和你的全家都要进入方舟，因为在这世代中，我见你在我面前是义人。　 7:2 凡洁净的畜类，你要带七公七母；不洁净的畜类，你要带一公一母； 7:3 空中的飞鸟也要带七公七母，可以留种，活在全地上；　 7:4 因为再过七天，我要降雨在地上四十昼夜，把我所造的各种活物都从地上除灭。” 7:5 挪亚就遵著耶和华所吩咐的行了。 7:6 当洪水泛滥在地上的时候，挪亚整六百岁。 7:7 挪亚就同他的妻和儿子、儿妇，都进入方舟，躲避洪水。 7:8 洁净的畜类和不洁净的畜类，飞鸟并地上一切的昆虫， 7:9 都是一对一对地，有公有母，到挪亚那里进入方舟，正如　神所吩咐挪亚的。 7:10 过了那七天，洪水泛滥在地上。 7:11 当挪亚六百岁，二月十七日那一天，大渊的泉源都裂开了，天上的窗户也敞开了。 7:12 四十昼夜降大雨在地上。 7:13 正当那日，挪亚和他三个儿子闪、含、雅弗，并挪亚的妻子和三个儿妇，都进入方舟。 7:14 他们和百兽，各从其类；一切牲畜，各从其类；爬在地上的昆虫，各从其类；一切禽鸟，各从其类，都进入方舟。 7:15 凡有血肉、有气息的活物，都一对一对地到挪亚那里，进入方舟。 7:16 凡有血肉进入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如　神所吩咐挪亚的。耶和华就把他关在方舟里头。 7:17 洪水泛滥在地上四十天，水往上长，把方舟从地上漂起。 7:18 水势浩大，在地上大大地往上长，方舟在水面上漂来漂去。 7:19 水势在地上极其浩大，天下的高山都淹没了。 7:20 水势比山高过十五肘，山岭都淹没了。 7:21 凡在地上有血肉的动物，就是飞鸟、牲畜、走兽和爬在地上的昆虫，以及所有的人都死了； 7:22 凡在旱地上、鼻孔有气息的生灵都死了； 7:23 凡地上各类的活物，连人带牲畜、昆虫，以及空中的飞鸟，都从地上除灭了，只留下挪亚和那些与他同在方舟里的。 7:24 水势浩大，在地上共一百五十天。

约拿

　　七1 本节中“进入”一词首次出现——一次满有恩典的福音邀请：“进入安全的方舟”

　　七2～18 神吩咐挪亚把每种动物都带一对进入方舟，而用于献祭的“洁净”的动物每种要带七对，有学者估计大概有四万五千种动物进入方舟之中。圣经没有说明为什么挪亚要带七对洁净的畜粪，却只带一对不洁净的畜类进入方舟。或者是用作食物，和献祭备用的洁净畜类（参看八20）。大雨降临之前，人畜在方舟内住了七天，地底储存的水涌出。大雨持续了四十昼夜。在圣经中“四十”这数字意指检定或验证。

　　许多人会惊讶，挪亚怎样把这些动物赶进方舟之中。难道挪亚父子花好几年来集合所有的动物吗？实际上，所有的受造物包括挪亚在内，都是照神的吩咐而行，因此把动物集中到方舟中应该不成问题；神会处理这些细节，而挪亚只需做好其本分──建造方舟。然而我们却常因担心一些自己不能控制的枝节问题，而忽略了一些特殊的、我们可以控制的范畴，例如：态度、关系、责任等。我们要像挪亚那样，专心做神吩咐我们做的事，别的事就让神去处理吧。

　　七 19～24 洪水是地域性的吗？有人认为这样。细想以下几点：天下的高山都淹没了（19节）。神不用命挪亚兴建一只相等于一个半足球场的长度，和八百个火车皮的容量的方舟，来逃避一次地域性的洪水。神能够轻易把八个人和动物迁移到另一处。全地的洪水传说来自世界各地。阿拉腊山高达一万七千英尺。水势比山高过十五肘（19，20节）。有什么奇迹可使地域性的洪水有这样的水势？在创世记九章15节，神应许水不再泛滥毁灭凡有血肉的活物。此后，有很多地域性的水灾，但不再有全地的水灾。洪水若是地域性的，神的诺言就粉碎了——一个不可能的总结。彼得利用洪水毁灭世界作记号，预示将来有火焚烧毁灭全地（彼后三6）

　　神在他的烈怒中，仍然不忘记他的伶悯。由于人在地上罪恶甚大，使神不得不施行洪水的审判。然而却有一艘绝对安全的方舟，漂浮在洪水之上。方舟里面有八个人，他们在方舟中极其稳妥，因为是神把他们关在方舟里。他们所以能在方舟里，因为他们信靠神，并且顺从了神的话。方舟是基督的写照。洪水描绘神的审判。主耶稣在各各他山走进神忿怒的大水之下。在基督里的人得救，在基督以外的灭亡。（参看彼前三21）

地上的过客

今天我要读两章了。

Genesis 7 ¹ The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. ² Take with you seven ^[1] of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, ³ and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. ⁴ Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made." ⁵ And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. ⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹ male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month-on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. ¹⁴ They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. ¹⁶ The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. ¹⁷ For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹ They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. ²⁰ The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. ^[2] , ^{[3] 21} Every living thing that moved on the earth perished-birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. ²⁴ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Thomas

末世不还啦！

LukeLee

第六章中上帝让挪亚带上所有种类的生物一公一母各两只，这一章又将牲畜分为洁净的和不洁净的，洁净的七公七母，不洁净的2公2母。洁净的、不洁净的是怎么分的？