Genesis 7:1-11

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, 1"Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that 2you are righteous before me in this generation.
2 Take with you seven pairs of all 3clean animals,[a] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,
3 and seven pairs[b] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4 For in seven days 4I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, 5and every living thing[c] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
5 6And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon 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.
8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon 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 7fountains of the great deep burst forth, and 8the windows of the heavens were opened.

Cross References 8

  • 1. Matthew 24:38, 39; Luke 17:26, 27; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5
  • 2. Genesis 6:9
  • 3. Genesis 8:20; [Leviticus 11]
  • 4. ver. 12, 17; [Job 37:11-13]
  • 5. Genesis 6:17
  • 6. Genesis 6:22
  • 7. Genesis 8:2; Proverbs 8:28; [Amos 9:6]
  • 8. Genesis 8:2; 2 Kings 7:19; Isaiah 24:18; Malachi 3:10; [Psalms 78:23]

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or seven of each kind of clean animal
  • [b]. Or seven of each kind
  • [c]. Hebrew all existence; also verse 23
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