Genesis 7:6

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.

Genesis 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth
When it began, for he was in his six hundred and first year when it ended, ( Genesis 8:13 ) his eldest son was now an hundred years old, since when Noah was five hundred years old he begat children, ( Genesis 5:32 ) .

Genesis 7:6 In-Context

4 Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.

7 He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.

8 A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,