Did Noah know the difference between clean and unclean animals?
Quick Answer
Genesis identifies clean and unclean animals before Sinai, although it does not provide the full Levitical dietary list there.
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Detailed Biblical Study
Genesis identifies clean and unclean animals before Sinai, although it does not provide the full Levitical dietary list there. This question comes from the Teaching Torah Before The Tables. Read Genesis 7:2-3 in context and distinguish the passage’s explicit statement from the speaker’s inference. The Teaching contrasts recorded pre-Sinai instructions with the speaker’s inference that later Mosaic laws were already known in an equivalent form. Genesis does not repr
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Torah Before The Tables
This Teaching traces Yehovah’s instruction before the tablets at Sinai. Starting with Adam, Cain and Abel, Noah, and Abraham, the speaker examines evidence of offerings, sin, accountability, marriage, clean and unclean animals, justice, circumcision, and covenant faithfulness before the Mosaic covenant. He argues that Sinai formally codified divine instruction already known in earlier generations. The closing Q&A explores universal obligations, land-dependent provisions, and the distinction between covenant loyalty and enforcing Israel’s national legal system outside the land.