Genesis 7:6

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

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 will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

5 Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.

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

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

8 The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground