Genesis6:13–22

Corrupt / destroy — one verb, two directions (lex talionis) structural / thematic — confirmed

The earth “corrupted” itself (6:11–12, shâchath), so God will “destroy” it (6:13, 17, the same shâchath). The Verifier confirms the shared root across these verses; Barnes, Ellicott, Keil, and the Pulpit all read it as deliberate retributive wordplay. The corruption is not punished by an unrelated penalty — it is unmade by its own name.

Genesis 6:11 · Genesis 6:12 · Genesis 6:13 · Genesis 6:17

basis: Hebrew↔Hebrew shared lexeme H7843 shâchath (in 135 vv), recurring as ‘corrupt’ (6:11–12) and ‘destroy’ (6:13, 17); same root, deliberate talionic reuse — verbal echo, not a quotation, so tiered structural.

The têbâh — a chest for two deliverances structural / thematic — confirmed

The word for the ark, têbâh (H8392), is rare — the Verifier finds it in only 25 verses across the whole Hebrew Bible — and apart from the Flood narrative it occurs only in Exodus 2:3–5, the basket that saves the infant Moses. The same uncommon noun frames both rescues: a vulnerable life sealed inside, drawn safe through deadly water. Cambridge and Ellicott both flag the singularity of the term.

Genesis 6:14 · Genesis 6:18 · Genesis 7:7 · Exodus 2:3

basis: Hebrew↔Hebrew shared rare lexeme H8392 têbâh (in only 25 vv, all in Gen 6–9 + Exod 2:3–5); a pointed verbal link by a near-hapax noun, but a shared object/motif rather than a quotation — tiered structural, not verbal.

The mabbûl — a word coined for one flood verbal / quotation — confirmed

“The flood” of 6:17 is mabbûl (H3999), an archaic term that, as Ellicott, Cambridge, and Keil all note, is used of nothing but Noah’s deluge — its only other occurrence in Scripture is Psalm 29:10, “The LORD sits enthroned over the flood.” The link is lexical and singular: one word reserved for one event, reappearing once to set the LORD above it.

Genesis 6:17 · Psalm 29:10

basis: Hebrew↔Hebrew shared rare lexeme H3999 mabbûl, which occurs ONLY in the Flood narrative and Psalm 29:10 (a near-hapax); the extreme rarity of the term makes the verbal link confirmable. Provenance per Ellicott/Cambridge/Keil, not the Verifier’s candidate list.

Noah and the ark, carried into the Flood structural / thematic — confirmed

The Verifier’s top candidates are the verses of Genesis 7 where Noah (Nôach, H5146) and the ark (têbâh, H8392) recur together as the waters rise — 7:1, 7:7, 7:9, 7:13, 7:23. These are the narrative continuation: the command to build (our unit) executed when the flood comes. Shared proper noun plus the rare vessel-word bind the build to the boarding.

Genesis 7:1 · Genesis 7:7 · Genesis 7:13 · Genesis 7:23

basis: Hebrew↔Hebrew shared lexemes H5146 Nôach (in 39 vv) + H8392 têbâh (in 25 vv) per Verifier thread_candidates; recurring named subject and object across the same narrative — structural continuity, no quotation claim.

Noah's obedience named as faith (Hebrews 11:7) typological

Genesis 6:22 — “Noah did … so he did” — is the act the New Testament singles out: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house” (Hebrews 11:7). Benson, Poole, and Keil each anchor v. 22 to this verse. Because this is a cross-Testament link (Greek↔Hebrew), it cannot rest on a shared Strong's number; it is a thematic/typological reading of the same event, not a verbal quotation of the Hebrew.

Genesis 6:22 · Hebrews 11:7

basis: Cross-Testament (Greek NT ↔ Hebrew OT): no shared Strong's possible, so not ‘verbal’. Hebrews 11:7 reads Noah’s ark-building as the exemplary act of faith — a widely-held figural reading of the same event; attestation ancient (named by Benson, Poole, Keil).

Christ the true Noah, the ark already prepared ancient/widely-held

Matthew Henry, on 6:22: “Christ, the true Noah, which same shall comfort us, hath by his sufferings already prepared the ark, and kindly invites us by faith to enter in.” Gill develops the same figure: the ark is “a type of the church of God,” and the single door a figure of Christ, “the door into the church.” The vessel’s one entrance, shut by the LORD’s own hand (Genesis 7:16), reads in the tradition as the one way of salvation, entered by faith.

Genesis 6:14 · Genesis 6:16 · Genesis 6:22

The covering (kâphar) and the covenant raised up novel

The waterproofing of the ark (6:14) is the verb kâphar — the atonement-word; the Pulpit Commentary traces it to “make expiation for sin … to obtain covering,” the root of the mercy-seat (kappōreṯ, ἱλαστήριον, Romans 3:25). And the covenant of 6:18 is the first bᵉrîṯ in Scripture, the line Cambridge runs forward to the cup of the new covenant in Christ’s blood (Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 9:16–17, cited by Ellicott). The ark that is covered and the covenant that is raised up together prefigure a salvation secured by atoning blood and a standing covenant. This particular synthesis of the two threads is the tool’s own reading, offered to be tested.

Genesis 6:14 · Genesis 6:18