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AndוַNoahנֹחַdidיַּעַשׂaccording to allכְּכֹלthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהhad commanded him.צִוָּהוּ
Genesis 7:5
Study it in the app“And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 7:5, word by word
- Noahנֹחַnoach
Noah
Noah, son of Lamech, the man who found favor with YHWH and was saved with his family in the ark from the flood. In Hebrew "Noach" sounds like "rest" and "comfort" (Genesis 5:29).
Where else “noach” appears- didיַּעַשׂyaas
carry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “yaas” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- had commanded himצִוָּtsiva
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appears
The context
4For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”
5 · This verse (above)
6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, waters on the earth.
To study Genesis 7 in a group
1. What it says
Who entered the ark, and what did YHWH do after they went in (vv. 7, 16)?
2. What it means
What does the text teach by repeating that Noah did all that Elohim had commanded him (vv. 5, 9)?
3. How I live it
What step you have been putting off can you take this week in obedience to what you know is good?