Kejadian 7:11

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ¹  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ²  were opened.

Kejadian 7:2

7:2 You must take with you seven ³  of every kind of clean animal, ⁴  the male and its mate, ⁵  two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

1 Raja-raja 7:2

7:2 He named ⁶  it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; ⁷  it was 150 feet ⁸  long, 75 feet ⁹  wide, and 45 feet ¹⁰  high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

[7:11]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).

[7:11]  sn The watery deep. The same Hebrew term used to describe the watery deep in Gen 1:2 (תְּהוֹם, tihom) appears here. The text seems to picture here subterranean waters coming from under the earth and contributing to the rapid rise of water. The significance seems to be, among other things, that in this judgment God was returning the world to its earlier condition of being enveloped with water – a judgment involving the reversal of creation. On Gen 7:11 see G. F. Hasel, “The Fountains of the Great Deep,” Origins 1 (1974): 67-72; idem, “The Biblical View of the Extent of the Flood,” Origins 2 (1975): 77-95.

[7:11]  ² sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.

[7:2]  ³ tn Or “seven pairs” (cf. NRSV).

[7:2]  ⁴ sn For a study of the Levitical terminology of “clean” and “unclean,” see L. E. Toombs, IDB 1:643.

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “a male and his female” (also a second time at the end of this verse). The terms used here for male and female animals (אִישׁ, ’ish) and אִשָּׁה, ’ishah) normally refer to humans.

[7:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “he built.”

[7:2]  ⁷ sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

[7:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

[7:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”