Genesis 7:7-17

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 1fountains of the great deep burst forth, and 2the windows of the heavens were opened.
12 And rain fell upon 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,
14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock 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 winged creature.
15 They 3went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in 4as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.
17 The flood 5continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Cross References 5

  • 1. Genesis 8:2; Proverbs 8:28; [Amos 9:6]
  • 2. Genesis 8:2; 2 Kings 7:19; Isaiah 24:18; Malachi 3:10; [Psalms 78:23]
  • 3. Genesis 6:20
  • 4. ver. 2, 3
  • 5. ver. 4, 12
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