[Avodah] Questions on Parshat Noach

[Zev Sero]

On 30/10/2011 3:13 AM, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
> 1a) Why is the order switched in these 2 pesukim?

Malbim explains that the first list is the order in which they died,
and people, with all their ingenuity, were the last to go.  Some people
would surely have managed to climb high mountains, build towers, ships,
sealed chambers, etc., and survive for quite a while after even the last
insect had died, but eventually they succumbed too.  The second list is
the order in which their bodies were wiped off the face of the earth,
and man's constitution is more delicate than those of other creatures,
so his remains disappeared first.

Unfortunately this does not answer your second question.

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