And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
6 9. A description of the entrance into the ark, with evident editorial adaptations to harmonize Gen 6:19 and Gen 7:2; Gen 7:15.
6 (P). six hundred years old ] P gives Noah’s age at the time of the Flood. In Gen 7:22 he was said to be 500 years old before “he begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth”: see also Gen 7:11.
7 (partly J). Noah went in ] This account, which anticipates Gen 7:13 (P), is probably from J, with editorial adaptations to avoid clashing with P.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth,…. When it began, for he was in his six hundred and first year when it ended, Ge 8:13 his eldest son was now an hundred years old, since when Noah was five hundred years old he begat children, Ge 5:32.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
6. And Noah was six hundred years old. It is not without reason that he again mentions the age of Noah. For old age has this among other evils, that it renders men more indolent and morose; whence the faith of Noah was the more conspicuous, because it did not fail him in that advanced period of life. And as it was a great excellence, not to languish through successive centuries, so big promptitude deserves no little commendation; because, being commanded to enter the ark, he immediately obeyed. When Moses shortly afterwards subjoins, that he had entered on account of the waters of the deluge, the words ought not to be expounded, as if he were compelled, by the rushing of the waters, to flee into the ark; but that he, being moved with fear by the word, perceived by faith the approach of that deluge which all others ridiculed. Wherefore, his faith is again commended in this place, because, indeed, he raised his eyes above heaven and earth.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(6) Noah was six hundred years old.It follows that Shem was about one hundred years of age (comp. Gen. 5:32), and his two brothers younger; but all were married, though apparently without children. (Comp. Gen. 11:10.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 7:6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Ver. 6. And Noah was six hundred years old. ] He was five hundred old when God first foretold the flood, and promised the old world one hundred and twenty years’ respite: but, wearied out with their obstinacy in sin, he “cut the work short in righteousness,” Rom 9:28 and brought the flood upon them twenty years sooner: as it is said of Christ’s second coming, that, “for the elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened”; Mat 24:22 so, for the contumacy of these ungodly sinners, their judgment was hastened. For God is not asleep, or gone a journey, as the prophet said of Baal, &c. 1Ki 18:27
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Gen 7:6-12
6Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth. 7Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. 8Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, 9there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Gen 7:11 all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened The dating of Gen 7:11 is very specific in this verse (which implies a historical event) as well as the verbs which describe the physical catastrophe that occurred on the earth (two Niphal PERFECTS, BDB 131, KB 149 and BDB 834, KB 986). We can see the scale of destruction in Gen 7:18-19 in the Hebrew text. Many of the earth’s physical features may have been changed especially in the near east. There are two sources of the water: (1) fountains of the deep and (2) floodgates (i.e. windows, cf. Psa 78:23 ff; Mal 3:10) of the sky. This is an obvious reversal of what God did in Genesis 1. Watery chaos returns.
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
Gen 5:32, Gen 8:13
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 7:6-24. In this paragraph the dating assigns Gen 7:6; Gen 7:11; Gen 7:24 to P; to the same document Gen 7:13-16 a, Gen 7:18-21 are assigned by stylistic considerations, Gen 7:17 a is a link, but forty days has been borrowed from J by the editor. Js narrative has been dovetailed very skilfully into Ps, and has been expanded by glosses. Its original order was probably Gen 7:10; Gen 7:7; Gen 7:16 b, Gen 7:12, Gen 7:17 b, Gen 7:22 f. But Gen 7:7 and Gen 7:23 have received editorial additions in the style of P. Gen 7:8 f. is from P because his account of the entrance into the ark is found in Gen 7:13-16, and because of the distinction between clean and unclean. But several features cannot come from J, accordingly the redactors hand must be recognised. Since, however, he is not likely to have written a doublet to Gen 7:13-16, he may be working on Js text. According to P all the animals went into the ark in one day, and that the day on which the Flood came. And whereas J finds a sufficient cause in a forty days rain, P traces it to a bursting up of the waters from the subterranean abyss and a simultaneous opening of the windows of heaven so that the waters of the heavenly ocean streamed through. Thus the work of dividing the waters effected on the second day (Gen 1:6-8 *) was partially undone, not completely, for it is clear from Gen 8:2 that neither source was exhausted.