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6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
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Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
14 they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.
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They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
16 And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
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The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
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