701、此处总体上论述的主题是一个新教会的预备。之前的主题是该教会的理解力的事物，故此处的主题是意愿的事物（1-5节）。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]701. Genesis 7
1. And Jehovah said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen you before me as a just person in this generation.
2. Of every clean animal you are to take yourself seven each, seven each, a man and his wife; and of the animal that is not clean, two each, a man and his wife;{*1} 3. and of the bird of the heavens seven each, seven each, a male and a female, to keep their seed alive on the face of the whole earth.
4. Because in seven more days I will be making rain fall on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will obliterate all substance{*2} that I have made from the face of the ground."
5. And Noah did everything that Jehovah had commanded him.
6. And Noah was a son of six hundred years when the flood of water took place on the earth.{*3} 7. And Noah entered the ark, as did his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him, because of the waters of the flood.
8. Of the clean animal and of the animal that is not clean and of the bird and of everything that creeps on the ground,
9. two each, two each entered to Noah in the ark, a male and a female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And it happened in seven days that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great abyss burst and heaven's floodgates opened.
12. And there was a downpour on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. On that very day Noah entered the ark, as did Shem and Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife and his sons' three wives with them,
14. they, and every kind of wild animal, and every kind of beast, and every kind of creeping thing creeping on the earth, and every kind of bird, every flying thing, every winged creature.
15. And they entered to Noah in the ark, two each, two each of all flesh that had the breath of life in it.
16. And those entering — a male and a female of all flesh — entered as God had commanded him. And Jehovah closed it behind him.
17. And the flood was forty days on the earth, and the waters grew and lifted the ark and it rose off the earth.
18. And the water strengthened and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the face of the water.
19. And the water strengthened greatly, greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.
20. Fifteen cubits upward the water towered, and it covered the mountains.
21. And all flesh creeping on the earth passed away — including the bird and the beast and the wild animal and every crawling thing crawling on the earth — and every human.
22. Everything that had the breath of living spirit in its nostrils, of all that was on dry land, died.
23. And all substance that was on the face of the ground was obliterated, from human to animal to creeping thing to the bird of the heavens, and they were obliterated from the earth. And Noah alone was left, and what was with him in the ark.
24. And the water strengthened on the earth for one hundred fifty days.
701. Summary
THE general topic here is the preparation of the new church. As it had to be prepared in respect to intellectual things earlier, so here it has to be prepared in respect to the things of the will (verses 1-5).
Footnotes:
{*1} (in the text of Genesis 7:2). The phrase "a man and his wife," which occurs twice in this verse, refers to the animals; it is a literal rendering of the Latin virum et uxorem ejus, which is in turn a literal rendering of the original Hebrew אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֹ ('îš vǝ'ištô). The phrase is elsewhere translated "the male and his female" (in the King James Version) or "the male and its mate" (in the New Revised Standard Version). [RS]
{*2} (in the text of Genesis 7:4). The Hebrew word for "substance," יְקוּם (yǝqûm), can mean "living things" or possessions in general, as in Deuteronomy 11:6 (Brown, Driver, and Briggs 1996, under יְקוּם). [RS]
{*3} (in the text of Genesis 7:6). On the Hebraism "a son of (so many) years," see note 2 in 459. [LHC]
Potts(1905-1910) 701
701. THE CONTENTS. The subject here treated of in general is the preparation of a new church. As the subject before was the intellectual things of that church, so here it is the things of the will (verses 1 to 5).
Elliott(1983-1999) 701
701.
Here the subject in general is the preparation of the Church. Just as the subject previously was the things understanding, so here verses 1-5 deal with those of its will.
Latin(1748-1756) 701
701. CONTENTAHic in genere agitur de praeparatione novae Ecclesiae; sicut prius quoad ejus intellectualia, ita hic quoad ejus voluntaria, a vers. 1 ad 5.