curfe the Earth, and destroy the living Creatures. I. therein. Α ND God remembred Noah, A and every living thing, and all the cattel that was with him in God made a wind to we ark: and pass over the earth, and the waters allwaged 1. REmembred • This is fpo ken of God after the meaning that God to remember that which we take care of. God is faid to remember, when he relieves and fhews Mercy, Heb. 6. 10. Pfal. 136.23. A wind: This was a Wind fent on purpofe by God to remove the Waters from the Earth, Exod. 14. 21. 9.2. The fountains alfan of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained, is vi 2. The fountains, &c. As God by the Waters that were alWinds removed the ready upon the barth, Caufes of the Flond beneath, and the Hea fo he had removed all the immediate having ftopped the Fountains from vens from above. Wah sak 3. And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of the hundred and fifty days, the waters were abated. 3. Abated: Or, diminifhed. They were But yet not fo far affwaged before, (v.1.) taken away, but that they did, till this time, continue above the Earth, chap. 7. verse 24. 4. And the ark rested in the 4 The Seventh month, on an feventh month, on the seventeenth day: ie. The day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. teenth feventh month of the year.This was exactly five months, from the beginning of the floud of waters (Gen. 7, 11.) Or, an hundred and fifty days, allowing thirty days to each month. And hence it is evident, that the forty days, mentioned ch.7. v. 12. are part of the hundred and fifty mentioned v, 24. Upon the mountains: Or, apon one of the mountains. This is an elliptical way of fpeaking, fpeaking, which is very ufual in the Writings of the Jews. And we have frequent examples in Scripture to this purpole. Of Jephthah it is faid, that he was buried in the Cities of Gilead: i. e. In one of the Cities, as we render it, Judg. 12.7. 1 Sam. 18.21. Pfal. 1. 3. Zechar. 9. 9. Fon. 1.5. Compare Matt.27.44. with Luk. 23.39. Job. 6.45 Ararat: i.e. Armenia: That the Ark refted there, fofephus affirms. And it being a mountainous place, hither it was that the Sons of Sennacherib fled for refuge, a. 37,38. Jer.51.27. 5.Tenth month: ie The tenth month of 5. And the waters decreased continually, untill the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first the year. First day: day of the month, were the tops of the mountains feen. days after the above i. e. Seventy three named hundred and fifty Tops of the mountains feenie. The heads of the mountains (as it is in the Hebrew) were vifible: They were then confiderably higher than the Waters. 16. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 6. Window: Or, Cafement. It is not the fame word which is ufed ch.6.16. And moft probable it is (by comparing the word ufed here by the Chaldee, with Dan.6, 10.) to be understood of fome Shut or Cafement; which being easily removed, gave a profpect abroad, as well as a paffage out for the Raven and Dove, and for the rest of the Fowls afterwards. 7. And he fent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, untill the waters were dried up from off the earth. received 8. Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, to fee if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 7. To and frai i.e, The Raven returned to the Ark for refuge, but it does not appear that he was into the Ark. 8. He fent forth? He did this feven days after he had fent forth the Raven, as feems to be intimated verse 10. where it is faid, that he said yet other feven days, D. 4 9. But. 40 3 9. But the dove found no reft for the fole of her foot, and fhe returned unto him into the ark: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark 10. And he stayed yet other feven days, and again be fent forth the dove out of the ark. II. And the dove came in to him in the evening, and lo, in her. mouth was an olive-leaf pluckt off: So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 11. Olive-leaf: Or rather, an Olivebranch,as the Hebrew ch. 3. v.7. This be word fignifies. See ing an argument that the Waters were funk down below the tops of the Olive trees. 12. And he stayed yet other feven days, and fent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more. 13. And it came to pass in the fix hundredth and first year, in the firft month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up From off the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 13. First month i.e. of the new year. From off the Earth's ground was day; for i.e.The furface of the to it follows, the face of the ground was dry: For the body of the ground it felf is not faid to be dry till the twenty-feventh day of the second month, v. 14. 14. And in the second month, on the seven and twen tieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15. And God Spake unto Noah, saying, 16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy fons, and thy fons wives with thee: 17. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattel, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitfull, and multiply upon the earth, 18. And 18. And Noah went forth, and his fons, and his wife and his fons wives with him: 19. Every Beaft, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatfoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20. Altar: A place where a Sacrifice or Oblation was laid when to be offered up. Here is the firft exprefs mention of an Altar, though it be fuppofed in Gen. 4. 3, 4. Burntofferings i. e. They were Offerings which were entirely burnt, Levit. 6. 9. 21. And the LORD fmelled. a fweet favour, and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again curfe the ground any more for mans fake, for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth neither will I again fmite any more every thing living, as I have done. 21. Smelled a fweet favour: i. e. God did graciously accept, as which is here exprefthe Chaldee hath it; fed after the manner of Men, by fmelling a favour, that being gratefull to the fenfe of a Man. In his heart: Or, (as the Hebrew will bear), to his heart: i. e. God fpake comfortably unto Noah. Topeak to the heart of a Man, is, in the Scripture-phrafe, to comfort and speak kindly to him, Gen. 50. 21. ch. 34. 3. Ifa.40.2. For the imagination, &c. Or, Although the imagination, &c. For fo the Hebrew Particle, which we render For, fignifies, and is fometimes rendred, Joh. 17. 18. Exod. 13. 17. Levit. 11. 5,6,7. Deut.29. 19. 1 Kings 20. 5. Jer. 51.5. As I have done Not by a Deluge or Univerfal deftruction thereupon enfuing. 22. While the earth remaineth, feed-time and barveft, and cold and heat, and fummer and winter, and day and night, fhall not ceafe. 22. Remaineth:i.e. Unto the End of this СНАР CHAP. IX. The ARGUMENT. God bleffeth Noah and his Sons. The eating of Bloud is forbidden, and the Murderer threatned with Death. God makes a Covenant, not any more to destroy the Earth with a Floud, and appoints the Rain-bow for a token of it. The Sons of Noah. Noah is drunken with the Wine of the Vine which he had planted : Of bis Nakedness; and of the Behaviour of Ham, the Fa ther of Canaan, towards him: The care of Shem and Japheth in covering their Father's nakedness. Noah curfeth Canaan, and fore-tells the prosperity of Shem and Japheth. The Age and Death of Noah. 1. God bleffed; As he did our firft Parents. See chap. 1.28. with the Note there. The Bleffing upon Noah and his Off-fpring is more particularly expreffed afterward, [1] In bleffing them with increase. Be fruitfull, &c. v.7. [H.] Reftoring them to their Dominion over the Creatures, v. 2. [III.] Allowing them the living Creatures for food, v.3. [IV.3 Affuring them that he would take a fpecial care of their lives, v.5. [V.] and that he would not deftroy the Earth by another floud, v.11. 2. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, fhall be upon eve. ry beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the fea, into your band are they delivered. 2. The fear of you, &c. Other creatures fhall be fo far from deftroying the race of mankind that they fhall be afraid of men, and fly from them, and brought under and tamed by them, Pfal, 104, 20, 22. Fam. 3. 7. 3. Every |