Genesis 7:6-14

Genesis 7:6-Jeremiah : . In this paragraph the dating assigns Genesis 7:6; Genesis 7:11; Genesis 7:24 to P; to the same document Genesis 7:13-Nehemiah : a, Genesis 7:18-Ecclesiastes : are assigned by stylistic considerations, Genesis 7:17 a is a link, but “ forty days” has been borrowed from J by the editor. J’ s narrative has been dovetailed very skilfully into P’ s, and has been expanded by glosses. Its original order was probably Genesis 7:10; Genesis 7:7; Genesis 7:16 b, Genesis 7:12, Genesis 7:17 b, Genesis 7:22 f. But Genesis 7:7 and Genesis 7:23 have received editorial additions in the style of P. Genesis 7:8 f. is from P because his account of the entrance into the ark is found in Genesis 7:13-Nehemiah :, and because of the distinction between clean and unclean. But several features cannot come from J, accordingly the redactor’ s hand must be recognised. Since, however, he is not likely to have written a doublet to Genesis 7:13-Nehemiah :, he may be working on J’ s text. According to P all the animals went into the ark in one day, and that the day on which the Flood came. And whereas J finds a sufficient cause in a forty days’ rain, P traces it to a bursting up of the waters from the subterranean abyss and a simultaneous opening of the windows of heaven so that the waters of the heavenly ocean streamed through. Thus the work of dividing the waters effected on the second day ( Genesis 1:6-Ruth : *) was partially undone, not completely, for it is clear from Genesis 8:2 that neither source was exhausted.