Noah - HaMabul - The Worldwide Flood

9 This is the account of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with Elohim.
10 Noach had three sons: Shem, Ham and Yaphet.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in Elohim's sight and was full of violence.
12 Elohim saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
13 So Elohim said to Noach, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.
16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-- you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
22 Noach did everything just as Elohim commanded him.

The Character of Noach

6:8 “grace” - !xe favor, grace

Grace is not “unmerited favor” as though it doesn’t matter what a person does in response to Yah’s kindness. Chen (favor or “grace”) is the smile of Yahuwah’s face and the positive benefit one receives from Yah because one is walking in obedience to his instructions. The testimony of verse 9 demonstrates this:

This is the account of Noach. Noach was a righteous man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with Elohim.

1. He was qyDIc; ”tsaddiq” just, righteous, ethically right

2. He was ~ymiT' “tammim” complete, sound -- 1. complete, whole, entire. 2. whole, sound, healthful, of men; vine; usu. of sacrif. animals. 3. complete, entire, of time: day; year; sabbaths. 4. sound, wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity:

3. He walked with Elohim: %l;h' vb. go, come, walk. To walk is a metaphor for living one’s life. Noach behaved himself and lived according to Yah’s directions.

The Deterioration of Mankind on the Earth

6:1 ll;x' pollute, defile, profane; Hiph also begin -- Niph. 1. reflex. pollute, defile oneself a. ritually, by contact with dead. b. sexually. 2. Pass., be polluted, defiled, of holy places, name of God and even God himself. Pi. 1. defile, pollute: a. sexually, (the father's bed); a woman. b. ceremonially, profane,

6:2 The sons of Elohim – fallen angels or men?

6:4 Nephilim - ~yliypin> (n®pîlîm) giants, the Nephilim, fallen ones?

From lp;n" (n¹fal) I, fall, lie, be cast down, fail

See also lp,nE (n¢fel) untimely birth, abortion lP'm; (mapp¹l) refuse (garbage) and hl'P'm; (mapp¹lâ) a ruin

Bemidbar 13:33 ³³ We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them."

6:5 [r; adj. bad, evil, disagreeable, malignant

Elohim's Judgment

6:11 sm'x' “chamas” violence, wrong -- violence, specif. of physical violence; but also wrong, including injurious language, harsh treatment, etc. (of wrong done to Sarah by Hagar); in gen. of rude wickedness of men, their noisy, wild, ruthlessness

6:14 hb'Te “tayvah” ark (prop. chest, box; prob. Egypt. loan-word from t-b-t, chest, coffin)

Same as word in Shemot 2:3,5 in which Mosheh was laid to float in the river

The tayvah was to be 400ft x 75ft x 45ft = 300 cubits long x 50 cubits wide x 30 cubits high

²² And Noach did all that Elohim commanded him--he did indeed.

The Flood (HaMabul)

7:1 Yahuwah then said to Noach, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 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,
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 Noach did all that Yahuwah commanded him.
6 Noach was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noach 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 Noach and entered the ark, as Elohim had commanded Noach.
10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noach'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 Noach and his sons, Shem, Ham and Yaphet, 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 Noach and entered the ark.
16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as Elohim had commanded Noach. Then Yahuwah 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.
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 Noach was left, and those with him in the ark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

7:1 Yahuwah said to Noach, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you righteous among this generation.

Rabbis think that Noach’s righteousness pales in comparison with Avraham’s

7:2 Clean and unclean are distinguished at this early time – a clear indication that Yah’s instructions regarding clean and unclean have NEVER changed!

Male and female - AT*v.aiw> vyaiî this is the word for “man”! but is used of animals! Ish probably means “male” rather than “man” and isha to the female rather than “woman”

7:3 hb'_qen>W rk"åz" zachar and neqayvah – male and female (also verse 16)

7:5 And Noach did all that Yahuwah commanded him. (again!)

7:11 the fountains of the deep and the floodgates hB'rua] n.f. lattice, window, sluice of the heavens

Elohim Remembers Noach

8:1 But Elohim remembered Noach and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noach opened the window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noach in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noach knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of Noach's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noach then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then Elohim said to Noach,
16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you-- the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground-- so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it."
18 So Noach came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds-- everything that moves on the earth-- came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noach built an altar to Yahuwah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21 Yahuwah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

Hebrews 11:⁷ By faith, Noach, having been warned of what was yet unseen, having feared, prepared an ark to save his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

For if Elohim did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment, and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noach, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when Elohim brought a flood on an ungodly world, and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly, and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men, (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) --if so, then Yahuwah knows how to rescue the righteous from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment, especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. (2 Peter 2:4-10)

For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of Elohim heavens existed long ago and an earth was ormed out of water and by means of water. Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water. But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with Yahuwah and a thousand years are like a single day. Yahuwah is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:5-9)

The Covenant with Noach

9:1 Then Elohim blessed Noach and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.
3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of Elohim has Elohim made man.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
8 Then Elohim said to Noach and to his sons with him:
9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was with you-- the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you-- every living creature on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And Elohim said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
17 So Elohim said to Noach, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1-55:5

"Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says Yahuwah.
2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.
4 "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
5 For your Maker is your husband-- Yahuwah Almighty is his name-- the Holy One of Yisrael is your Redeemer; he is called the Elohim of all the earth.
6 Yahuwah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit-- a wife who married young, only to be rejected," says your Elohim.
7 "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
8 In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says Yahuwah your Redeemer.
9 "To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
10 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahuwah, who has compassion on you.
11 "O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your sons will be taught by Yahuwah, and great will be your children's peace.
14 In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.
15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;
17 no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahuwah, and this is their vindication from me," declares Yahuwah.
55:1 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of Yahuwah your Elohim, the Holy One of Yisrael, for he has endowed you with splendor."

Noach's Sons

18 The sons of Noach who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Yaphet. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19 These were the three sons of Noach, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.
20 Noach, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Yaphet took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noach awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers."
26 He also said, "Blessed be Yahuwah, the Elohim of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
27 May Elohim extend the territory of Yaphet; may Yaphet live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave."
28 After the flood Noach lived 350 years.
29 Altogether, Noach lived 950 years, and then he died.

The Descendants of Noach

10:1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Yaphet, Noach's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
2 The sons of Yaphet: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Javan: Elisha'h, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim.
5 (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahuwah; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahuwah."
10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.
11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Yaphet; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.
24 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.
25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
26 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
32 These are the clans of Noach's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

10:1 Noach: Shem, Cham, Yaphet

Noach means “rest”

Shem means “name”

Cham means “father-in-law” or “hot, heat, warmth, the hot one, the burnt one”

Yaphet means “spacious, open, wide”

10:2 the sons of Yephet: Gomer, Magog, etc. – inhabitants of Asia Minor and beyond (the coastlands)

10:6 sons of Cham: Cush, Mitsrayim, Put, Kena’an

10:7-10 sons of Cush: ….Nimrod, the mighty hunter. The beginning of his reign was Bavel… in the land of Shinar

10:11 From there (after the scattering?) he went to Ashshur….

Bavel

11:1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But Yahuwah came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
6 Yahuwah said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So Yahuwah scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel--because there Yahuwah confused the language of the whole world. From there Yahuwah scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Nimrod is the historical “Ninus, king of the Assyrians (Ashshur)” He was the first who carried on war against his neighbors. “Ninus, the most ancient of the Assyrian kings mentioned in history, performed great actions. Being naturally of a warlike disposition, and ambitious of glory that results from valor, he armed a considerable number of young men that were brave and vigorous like himself, trained them up a long time in laborious exercises and hardships, and by that means accustomed them to bear the fatigues of war, and to face dangers with intrepidity.”

Ninus, “the Son,” is sometimes called the husband and sometimes the son of Semiramis.

Ninus was the son of Bel, and Bel is said to have been the founder of Babylon

10:8 Cush begat Nimrod. Therefore, Bel must be Cush

Cush, as the son of Cham, was also known as Hermes or Mercury. Hermes is just an Egyptian synonym for the “son of Cham”

Hermes was the great original prophet of idolatry. Also known as Nebo, he was the grand agent in that movement which produced the division of tongues.

“For many ages, men lived under the government of Jove (YHWH) without cities and without laws, and all speaking one language. But after that, Mercury interpreted the speeches of men, the same individual distributed the nations. Then discord began”

Hermes (hermeneutics – to interpret)

Peresh, in Chaldee, means “to interpret” and “to divide” Cush was the divider of the speeches of men.

Bel means “the confounder, confuser”

Janus “the god of gods, from whom all the other gods had their origin, is made to say of himself: “the ancients… called me Chaos”

Cush = Bel = Confounder = Janus = Chaos

Chaos is the god of Confusion, whose symbol is the club.

The word “club” comes from a word which signifies “to break in pieces, to scatter abroad”

Vulcan’s hammer is Janus’ club. It represents Nimrod’s aggression and conquering.

Descendants of Shem and Terah

10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Avram, Nahor and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Avram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
29 Avram and Nahor both married. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Terah took his son Avram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Avram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

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