Genesis 7:6

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Genesis 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth
When it began, for he was in his six hundred and first year when it ended, ( Genesis 8:13 ) his eldest son was now an hundred years old, since when Noah was five hundred years old he begat children, ( Genesis 5:32 ) .

Genesis 7:6 In-Context

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

5 And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,