Holy Scripture

Genesis 7:6

A church father on this verse
“Hippolytus, the Syrian expositor of the Targum, has said: We find in an ancient Hebrew copy that God commanded Noah to range the wild beasts in order in the lower floor or storey, and to separate the males from the females by putting wooden stakes between them. And thus, too, he did with all the cattle, and also with…”
Hippolytus of Rome, 3th c. — Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.

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4For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.

5And Noah did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.

— Genesis 7:6 —

7And then went in Noah and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

8And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,

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