ContradictionsReading order 323Bible context 2 min read
Did everyone (except for Noah and his family) die in the flood?
The later appearance of giants raises an ancestry question, but the supplied passages do not explicitly identify anyone outside the ark who survived the flood.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Later giants raise an ancestry question but the quotations identify no survivor outside the ark or necessary continuous giant lineage.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Only Noah and those in the ark survive
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:21-23
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Giants are described both before the flood and later
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.