Read Genesis 7 at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraph divisions:
6:13-8:14 {s} …
The next teaching tool embedded within the text of the Bible is the Chiastic Structure. The Scriptures, Old (Hebrew) and New (Greek) Testaments, contain Chiastic Structures from beginning to end in an unbroken string from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21. They are a thumbprint of God on His Word as their elegance, logic, and symmetry is impossible for a human mind to create in the complexity that they are found in Scripture.
A Chiastic Structure is a narrative with a central point, which is the key point of the passage. The Spirit highlights that point by having the narrative around it zero in on it like an arrow. For example, if there are four ideas in a passage leading up to the central point, then following it, the same ideas will be repeated in some way, but in reverse order. This makes pairings, as the idea immediately preceding the central point is paired to the repeated idea immediately following the central point, and so on. There can be any number of ideas. But that they repeat in reverse order around a central point is the key characteristic. For example,
The central axis concerns the birth of Noah. Noah is the pivot point, for judgment for sin came on the earth, but God provided Noah with an ark of salvation.
This History Prophesies, for judgment for sin is coming on the earth, but God provides us with an ark of salvation.
In fact, John the Baptist upbraided the religious leaders of his day:
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance …” Mat 3:7-8
For the wrath now coming on the world because of unrepented sin is a wrath of unquenchable fire. But Yeshua is the ark of our salvation.
If there are questions, these are good resources:
Genesis 1:1-7:24, Chiastic structure, and how the C pair pairs – Christine Miller
Genesis 5:32-6:4, Sons of God/ Men profanely began pair – Christine Miller
Chiastic structures in Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3, Gen 4, Gen 5, Gen 6, Gen 7 – Hebraic Faith Bible
Genesis 6:9-7:24, The Comparison and Contrast teaching tool – Christine Miller
Flood Answers – Answers in Genesis
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