The date is given here at which the flood began and the entrance into the ark was completed. In seven days. On the seventh day from the co…

In the second month. —This refers to the civil year, which began in Tishri, at the autumnal equinox. The flood thus started toward…

Perhaps the world was in its prime, when the trees were in bloom, and the birds were singing in their branches, and the flowers were blooming on th…

The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Moses recalls the period of the first creation to our memory; for the ear…

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life
Not complete, but current, for otherwise Noah would have lived after the fl…

The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come indoors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go i…