Genesis 6-8

6:1-2 Ahh - a very weird chunk of scripture.  (The sons of God taking wives among the sons of Men.  Who were these sons of God that they could breed with humans even though they weren't human?  The Bible doesn't say.)

6:3 God shortens the life expectancy of people.  No more Adam living until Noah's dad's time.

6:4 I'm not sure if these giants were the result of the sons of God marrying the human women, because it doesn't actually say so.  But it does sort of seem implied.  Giants, and mighty men of old are the only "special" types of people mentioned.

6:5 This verse is the key of the whole passage.  The adjectives emphasize: the wickedness of man was GREAT, EVERY intent of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY EVIL, CONTINUOUSLY.  We think things here and now are getting bad, but really, people still have good intentions, we still have a lot of Christian values, etc.  To have this where every intent was only evil, and continuously.  It must have been really bad.

6:6 God plans to undo his creation.

6:8 But Noah...

6:9 The geneology of Noah is humorously short.

6:10 Returning now to our theme.  Things are pretty bad, really evil. Filled with violence, corrupt...

6:14-16 So the ark has to have certain dimensions, three stories, a window and a door.

6:20 birds, animals and creeping things came.  if we look back at the classification of animals in creation, I would venture to guess that "animals" covers both livestock and wild animals, that creeping things is the third classification of animals.  Birds came, but there's no mention of sea creatures.  My guess is that they didn't come.  (And didn't need to, to survive).

6:22 Noah obeyed everything.

7:5 repeated - Noah obeyed all that God commanded him.

(hurrying now, it's about time to load the van)

End of chapter 7 there's a big emphasis on the death that abounded.  There was everyone from Seth's generation onward still alive - and that was the end of them all.

8:7 Ravens eat dead flesh.  The raven Noah sent out went to and fro, probably eating carnage.

8:8 Doves eat plants.  It couldn't stay out until there were plants available.

8:20 There's a huge number of animals at this sacrifice.  This is the first burnt offering and the first sacrifice in the Bible.

Noah has become the new Adam.