Motif
Selected righteous survivor and household
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A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family, within the sub-family Righteous Remnants and the Few Spared. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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jewish christian
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 6 / Footnotes / Chapter 7; lines 435-488 confidence: high
Yahweh tells Noah to enter the ship with his household, gives instructions for clean and unclean animals and birds, and announces rain for forty days and nights that will destroy every living thing from the ground.
Noah is identified as righteous, obeys Yahweh's commands, enters the ship with his household, and remains alive with those in the ship after the flood destroys other dry-land life.
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