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1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
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2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
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3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
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3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
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4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."
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4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."
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5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
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5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
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6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
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6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
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| Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
