the episode of Noah’s drunkenness. In the midst of the ways these features work together, having just considered the covenantal import of Moses, note that Yahweh declares himself to be establishing his covenant with Noah (Gen 9:9, 11, 12, 17). The (1) re-used term “ark” works with (2) quotations of phrases or whole lines, Genesis 1:28 in 9:1, and (3) repeated sequences of events (on which see in Chapter 2) all of which join with (4) similarity in salvation-historical and covenantal import to establish
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