Genesis 7:9

"Male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah."  Genesis 7:9

This continuation of verse 8 tells us that male and female of every kind of animal entered into the ark.  And for the third time in scripture it is saying things are happening just as God had commanded Noah.  When push comes to shove, Noah is obeying and continues to obey the word of the God of everything.

I wonder about the choice of the word used for "God" in the account of Noah.  So far it's been a pretty even split between the words Elohiym and Yahweh.  When Lamech names Noah (5:29), when God is talking in the first part of chapter 6 (6:3, 6, 7, 8), and again when God commands Noah to enter the ark (7:1) it uses Yahweh, the Hebrew name of God that means "the Great I Am."  While Elohiym, the word that means "gods" or "almighty God," is used when describing the followers of God (6:2, 4) and when talking about God in the later part of chapter 6 (6:9, 11, 12, 13).  In 6:22 when scripture tells us Noah did everything just as God commanded him and again in the verse we're looking at now (7:9) when the animals entered the ark as God commanded it uses Elohiym, while in 7:5 where scripture repeats that Noah did everything as God commanded it uses Yahweh.

Maybe scripture is telling us that Noah didn't just obey some great impersonal power in the sky, but that he had a personal relationship with his God and obeyed that familiar presence by his side.  Yes, God is the almighty God, creator of the universe down to the tiniest detail, but he is also something we can have a familiar, personable relationship with.