Then Noah built an alter to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.I'd forgotten about this verse, so when I read in the previous chapter, I wondered why God told Noah to take seven of every clean animal. Now I know why: so he would have one to offer to God in thanks.
God didn't tell Noah to make this sacrifice. He could have let them all loose, but he didn't. He took of what God had spared, potentially risking what we now call the gene pool, and gave it back to the one who had spared him. As it "worked out", that left an even three pairs of the clean animals to breed. Even in tragedy, God's forethought is amazing.
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