You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
Here it appears indeed that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God's favour to him was plainly intimated in what he said of him, Gen 6:8-10, where his name is mentioned five times in five lines, when once might have served to make the sense clear, as if the Holy Ghost took a pleasure in perpetuating his memory; but it appears much...
Commenting on Genesis 6:13-21
Of all food that is eaten - That is, of the food proper for every species of animals.
Gen 6:17-21 Noah was to build this ark, because God was about to bring a flood upon the earth, and would save him, with his family, and one pair of every kind of animal. מבּוּל, (the flood), is an archaic word, coined expressly for the waters of Noah (Isa 54:9), and is used nowhere else except Psa 29:10.
Commenting on Genesis 6:17-21