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6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water 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 animals that are not clean and birds and 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 there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, 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 It came about after the seven days, that the water 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 the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky 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 The rain fell upon the earth for 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 Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, 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 after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
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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 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which 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 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.
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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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