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 to whom the is always a solemn and permanent embodiment of the divine will, and never a mere occasional provision (Kraetzschmar, Bundesvorstg. 197 f.). The entering of the ark is therefore not the condition to be fulfilled by Noah under the covenant, but the condition which makes the establishment of the promised covenant possible (Ho.).—Thou and thy sons, etc.] The enumeration is never omitted by P except in 8$1$; cf. 7$13$ 8$16. 18$: ct. J in 7$1$.—19 f. One pair of each species of animals (fishes naturally excepted) is to be taken into the ark. The distinction of clean and unclean kinds belongs on the theory of P to a later dispensation—20. The classification (which is repeated with slight variations in 7$14. 21$ 8{19} 9{2f. 10}) here omits wild beasts : v.i. on v.$19$.— does not necessarily imply that the animals came of themselves (Ra. IEz. al.), any more than (v.$19$) necessarily means that Noah had to catch them.—21. all food which is (or may be) eaten] according to the prescriptions of 1$29f.$.—22. so did he] the pleonastic sentence is peculiar to P; cf. esp. Ex. 40$16$ (also Ex. 7$6$ 12$28. 50$ 39$32. 42f.$, Nu. 1$54$, and often).

'''VII. 6, 11, 13-17a. Commencement of the Flood.'''—These vv. (omitting $16b$ [J]) appear to form an uninterrupted section of the Priestly narrative, following immediately on 6$22$.—6. Date of the Flood by the year of Noah's life. The number 600 is a Babylonian ner; it has been thought that the statement rests ultimately on a Bab. tradition.—11. This remarkably precise date introduces a sort of diary

35$29$ 49$33$,—12 t. in all); elsewhere only in poetry (Holz. Einl. 341).—19. ] (on anomalous pointing of art. see G-K. § 35 f (1)). [E] reads as in 8$17$; and so G, which takes the word in the limited sense of wild animals, reading [] (see 7$14. 21$ 8$19$).—] GS as in 7$9. 15$. So also v.$20$.—20. ] Ins.  with [E]GSVT$O$; the  is necessary to the sense.—G has  before each class, but MT rightly confines it to the heterogeneous  (Ho.). For, [E] G have .—21. ] see on 1$29$.—22. ] G Κύριος.

6. On the syntax of the time-relation, see G-K. § 164 a.—] see 6$17$.—11. —] 'in the year of 600 years'; cf. G-K. § 134 o.—For '17th day' G has '27th'; see p. 167 below.—] 8$2$, Mal. 3$10$, =, 2 Ki. 7$2. 19$ =, Is. 24$18$. Apart from these phrases the