Genesis 7 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Same 5 Similar 7 Different 6 Divergent 3 Disparate 3
Disparate in this chapter: 7:3, 7:11, 7:22
Each verse is rendered independently from the Hebrew (Rabbinic reading tradition) and from the Greek (Saints reading tradition). The badge classifies the relationship between the two readings; the note beneath records the source document’s comparison and attributed interpretation. Each column retains its own verse references where numbering differs.
Entering the Ark
7:1 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:1 YHWH said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.
Greek · Saints priority
7:1 The Lord God said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.
The invitation and assessment agree; G has Lord God rather than YHWH alone.
7:2 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:2 Take for yourself seven by seven of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its mate;
Greek · Saints priority
7:2 Bring to yourself seven by seven of the clean livestock, male and female, and two by two of the livestock that are not clean, male and female;
H’s male-and-mate expression uses the words man and wife; G has male and female. The repeated sevens are retained without imposing a separate total-headcount interpretation.
7:3 Disparate
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:3 also seven by seven of the birds of the sky, male and female, to keep offspring alive upon the face of all the earth.
Greek · Saints priority
7:3 and seven by seven of the clean birds of the sky, male and female, and two by two of the birds that are not clean, male and female, to sustain offspring upon all the earth.
H assigns sevens to birds without a clean/unclean distinction here. G gives sevens for clean birds and pairs for unclean birds. This changes the stated instructions, not merely their length.
7:4 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:4 For in seven more days I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and wipe away every living thing that I have made from the face of the ground.”
Greek · Saints priority
7:4 For in seven more days I am bringing rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and will wipe away everything that rises up, which I have made, from the face of the earth.”
G renders H’s living or existing things with rising-up language. It does not restrict the destruction to newly born creatures or refer here to resurrection.
7:5 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:5 Noah did according to all that YHWH commanded him.
Greek · Saints priority
7:5 Noah did all that the Lord God commanded him.
The divine designation differs; both affirm Noah’s compliance.
The Beginning of the Flood
7:6 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
Greek · Saints priority
7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
Both give Noah’s age as 600 at the flood.
7:7 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.
Greek · Saints priority
7:7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.
The family and reason for entry agree; Hebrew’s plural waters and Greek’s singular water are ordinary idiom.
7:8 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:8 From the clean animals, the animals that were not clean, the birds, and everything that moves upon the ground,
Greek · Saints priority
7:8 From the birds, the clean livestock, the livestock that were not clean, and all the creeping things upon the earth,
G puts birds first; the draft’s Greek order had been harmonized to H. Both retain the clean and unclean animal groups.
7:9 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:9 they came two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Greek · Saints priority
7:9 they entered two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded him.
H repeats Noah; G uses a pronoun. Two by two describes paired entry and does not by itself cancel the preceding sevens.
7:10 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:10 After the seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
Greek · Saints priority
7:10 After the seven days, the water of the flood came upon the earth.
Both place the flood after the stated interval.
The Fountains and the Windows
7:11 Disparate
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:11 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 deep burst open, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Greek · Saints priority
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on that day all the springs of the abyss burst open, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
H gives day 17; G gives day 27. G lacks H’s great before deep and uses floodgates. The dates are preserved without assuming a modern calendar or harmonized duration.
7:12 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:12 Rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Greek · Saints priority
7:12 Rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Both explicitly include forty nights here.
7:13 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s sons, and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them.
Greek · Saints priority
7:13 On that day Noah entered the ark, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s sons, and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with him.
H’s idiomatic emphasis and plural with them correspond to G’s that day and singular with him. The named household agrees.
7:14 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:14 they and every wild animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every wing.
Greek · Saints priority
7:14 And all the wild animals according to kind, all the livestock according to kind, every creeping thing moving upon the earth according to kind, and every bird according to kind
H closes with the additional every bird of every wing phrase. G continues its subject list into the entry verb at 7:15.
7:15 Same
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:15 They came to Noah into the ark, two by two from all flesh in which is a spirit of life.
Greek · Saints priority
7:15 entered to Noah into the ark, two by two from all flesh in which is a spirit of life.
Both narrate paired entry. G’s preceding inventory is the subject of this verb.
7:16 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:16 Those entering, male and female of all flesh, entered as God commanded him; and YHWH shut him in.
Greek · Saints priority
7:16 Those entering, male and female of all flesh, entered as God commanded Noah; and the Lord God closed the ark from outside him.
G names the ark as the object and describes closure outside Noah, while H says shut in or behind him. Both attribute the closure to God; G does not leave Noah outside.
Death of all Flesh
7:17 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:17 The flood was upon the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth.
Greek · Saints priority
7:17 The flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The water increased and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth.
G repeats forty nights, absent from this Hebrew verse but present in H at 7:12.
7:18 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark moved upon the face of the waters.
Greek · Saints priority
7:18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark was carried upon the water.
H describes the ark’s movement; G expresses its being borne along. Neither supplies human propulsion.
7:19 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:19 The waters prevailed very, very greatly upon the earth, and all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
Greek · Saints priority
7:19 The water prevailed very, very greatly upon the earth and covered all the high mountains under heaven.
Both repeat the intensifier. H’s passive covering becomes G’s active water as subject; all high mountains remain included.
7:20 Divergent
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits above, and the mountains were covered.
Greek · Saints priority
7:20 The water rose fifteen cubits above and covered all the high mountains.
G explicitly repeats all and high with mountains. Both give fifteen cubits; a modern conversion requires a stated cubit length.
7:21 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:21 All flesh moving upon the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all humankind.
Greek · Saints priority
7:21 All flesh moving upon the earth died: birds, livestock, wild animals, every creeping thing moving upon the earth, and every human.
The creature groups and death agree. Swarming becomes moving, and collective humanity becomes every human.
7:22 Disparate
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:22 Everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life died.
Greek · Saints priority
7:22 Everything that had a breath of life, and all that was upon the dry land, died.
H explicitly qualifies dry-land life by breath in the nostrils. G omits nostrils and spirit, and coordinates its clauses. The broader grammatical formulation does not alone establish a separate claim about aquatic life.
7:23 Different
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:23 He wiped away every living thing upon the face of the ground, from human beings to livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were wiped away from the earth; only Noah remained, and those with him in the ark.
Greek · Saints priority
7:23 He wiped away everything standing upon the face of all the earth, from human beings to livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were wiped away from the earth; only Noah remained, and those with him in the ark.
Both begin with an active he wiped away; the draft’s Hebrew passive is corrected. G has standing or risen things and explicitly all the earth.
7:24 Similar
Hebrew · Rabbinic priority
7:24 The waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Greek · Saints priority
7:24 The water remained high upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
The duration agrees. G describes height; it does not mean the flood was religiously exalted.
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