his youth” (8:21), and “cosmos” because God retains elements of his original creation order. By drawing parallels with the creation account of Genesis 1, the narrator emphasizes that God is re-creating the world, making a new start with all the creatures in the ark.44 As God had originally separated light (“Day”) and darkness (“Night”), the waters above (“Heaven”) and the waters below (“Earth” and “Seas”) (Gen. 1:3–10), before life could flourish, so here God promised to maintain the separations
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