May the mumbling commence!
Now it’s time to load the ark! Read from Peterson’s The Message:
Next God said to Noah, “Now board the ship,
you and all your family – out of everyone in this generation, you’re the
righteous one.
Take on board
with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of
every unclean animal, a male and a female, and seven pairs of every kind of
bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth. In just seven days I will dump rain on the
Earth for forty days and forty nights. I’ll
make a clean
sweep of
everything that I’ve made.”
Noah did everything God commanded him.
Noah was 600
years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives
boarded the ship to escape the flood.
Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in
pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded
Noah. In seven days the flood waters
came.
It was the six-hundredth year
of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that
it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven
were thrown open. Rain pouted for forty
days and forty nights.
That’s the day
Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his son’s
wives, boarded the ship. And with them
every kind of wild and domesticated animal, right down to all the kinds of
creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies. They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs –
everything and anything that had the breath of life in it, male and female of
every creature came just as God commanded Noah. Then God shut
the door behind him. (Genesis
7:1-16)
Now read
from the NIV translation:
The Lord
then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I
have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you
seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind
of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird,
male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 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."
And Noah did all that the Lord
commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the
floodwaters came on the earth. And Noah
and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the
waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and
unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male
and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. And after the seven days the floodwaters came
on the earth.
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. And rain fell on the earth forty days and
forty nights.
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. 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. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath
of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of
every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord
shut him in. (Genesis 7:1-16)
All told, there is remarkable
agreement with these two passages.
Significant differences are minimal.
God dumps rain on the earth in Peterson’s work, while the NIV talks
about rain being sent. Peterson has the
harder edge in this case. But that is not
consistent in this passage.
Sometimes the NIV is harsher. God wipes all living beings from the face of
the earth in the NIV. In Peterson’s
work, God makes a clean sweep. They
amount to the same thing, but Peterson takes a little of the edge off.
It’s important to note that the reoccurring
phrase is there. Noah did all that the
Lord commanded him to do. That is the
righteousness of Noah; that’s his difference from the rest of his world in his
day… and in ours. It’s interesting that
Peterson uses the word righteous in this case, too – unlike earlier in chapter
six.
Then the last sentence has some
difference. God shut the door of the ark
behind Noah (Peterson), or God shut him in (NIV). Again the NIV seems a little more
ominous. Peterson emphasizes the
protection of the ark a bit more in his wording. God’s got our backs!
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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