Genesis · 24 verses
Genesis 7
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Noah enters the ark, and then—on the day the fountains burst and the floodgates open—enters it again. The chapter makes no attempt to tidy the timetable, while the animals arrive in both seven pairs and twos.
The ark is entered, then entered againvv. 1–16
The LORD sends Noah, his family, and a carefully assorted menagerie into the ark: seven pairs of clean animals and birds, but a pair of unclean animals. The creatures come obediently, two by two, which gives the arithmetic a small ark-shaped wobble. Noah and his household enter before the seven days are over; then, on the very day the deep bursts open, Noah enters again. The LORD shuts him in, a wonderfully final sort of door-closing.
The waters take the whole earthvv. 17–24
The rain continues for forty days and forty nights, the ark rises, and the waters keep winning. Even the high mountains disappear beneath them, by fifteen cubits for good measure. Everything with the breath of life on dry land dies; only Noah and those with him in the ark remain, while the waters prevail for 150 days.
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Gen 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Gen 7:2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Gen 7:3and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Gen 7:4For 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 thing I have made.”
Gen 7:6Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Gen 7:7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Gen 7:8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Gen 7:9came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Gen 7:10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Gen 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Gen 7:12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Gen 7:13On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
Gen 7:14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
Gen 7:15They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Gen 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Gen 7:17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Gen 7:18So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
Gen 7:19Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
Gen 7:20The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
Gen 7:21And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
Gen 7:22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Gen 7:23And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
Gen 7:24And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
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- 1Matthew 24:37–39As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- 12 Peter 2:5–9if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
- 1Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
- 1Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
- 11Genesis 8:2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- 16Matthew 25:10But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
- 16Luke 13:25After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
- 11 Peter 3:20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
- 1Isaiah 3:10–11Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- 1Genesis 7:13On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- 1Luke 17:26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- 1Ezekiel 9:4–6“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
- 5Genesis 6:22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
- 1Psalms 33:18–19Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- 1Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- 1Proverbs 10:6–7Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
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