Making my way through Genesis, I could not help but notice the similarity between Creation account in Genesis 1-2 and the proceedings surrounding the Flood in chapters 7-8.
- The animals in Genesis 7:15 come to Noah to be brought in to the ark, similary to their coming to Adam to be named in Genesis 2:20.
- Genesis 7:23 tells of the destruction of “people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky”–reversing the order given in the earlier creation account of Genesis 1.
- In Genesis 7:24 water again covers the earth as in Genesis 1:2.
- Genesis 8:1 says that “God caused a wind to blow over the earth” causing the waters to recede, just as in Genesis 1:2 “the Spirit of God [or "wind from/breath of God" cf. NRSV] was moving over the surgace of the water”
- Genesis 8:17 recapitulates the blessing to “be fruitful and multiply on the earth!” originally given in Genesis 1:28.
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That’s interesting. I’ve never noticed that, but it seems to be pretty apparent.
So now we have, technically, three creation stories in Genesis: The seven days, creation pertaining to man and woman, and then the “new” creation with Noah. Huh huh huh. To what extent coudl this be showing something? Huh. I’m not exactly sure how this all works in, but it would be interesting to see.