Genesis 7:7 - Exposition

And Noah went in. I .e. began to go in a full week before the waters came ( vide Genesis 7:10 ). " A proof of faith and a warning to the world." And his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him . In all eight persons ( 1 Peter 3:20 ); whence it is obvious that "each had but one wife, and that polygamy, as it began among the Cainites, was most probably confined to them" (Poole). Into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Literally, from the face of the waters, being moved with fear and impelled by faith ( Hebrews 11:7 ).