Genesis 7:5
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
4 For 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.”
And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
- KJV
- And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
- WEB
- Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.
- ASV
- And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.
- DARBY
- And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.
- BLB
- And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him.
- ÅB
- Og Noah gjorde i ett og alt som Herren hadde befalt ham.
- OTB
- Og Noah gjorde alt som Herren hadde befalt ham.
- B1930
- Og Noah gjorde i ett og alt som Herren hadde befalt ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 6:22
So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Read in contextLuke 8:21
But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
Read in contextExodus 39:32
So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read in contextExodus 39:42–43
The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read in contextPsalms 119:6
Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
Read in contextJohn 13:17
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Read in contextHebrews 5:8
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:8
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.
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