Genesis 7:1-9

1 The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Genesis 6:18; Matthew 24:38; Luke 17:26-27; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5
  • 2. Genesis 6:9; Ezekiel 14:14
  • 3. ver 8; Genesis 8:20; Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 11:1-47; Deuteronomy 14:3-20; Ezekiel 44:23; Haggai 2:12; Acts 10:14-15
  • 4. Genesis 6:20
  • 5. Genesis 8:2
  • 6. 1 Kings 13:34; Jeremiah 28:16
  • 7. Numbers 13:25; Deuteronomy 9:9; 1 Samuel 17:16; 1 Kings 19:8
  • 8. ver 12,17; Exodus 24:18; Exodus 32:1; Exodus 34:28; Dt 9:9,11,18,25; Deuteronomy 10:10; Job 37:6,13; Matthew 4:2
  • 9. S Genesis 6:7,13
  • 10. S Genesis 6:22
  • 11. S Genesis 5:32
  • 12. S Genesis 6:18
  • 13. S ver 2
  • 14. S Genesis 6:22
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