Genesis 7:6
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.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
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.
8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
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.
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- BSB
- Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
- KJV
- And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
- WEB
- Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- ASV
- And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
- DARBY
- And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
- BLB
- And Noah [was] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters came upon the earth.
- ÅB
- Noah var seks hundre år gammel da vannflommen kom over jorden.
- OTB
- Noah var seks hundre år gammel da vannflommene begynte å dekke jorden.
- B1930
- Noah var seks hundre år gammel da vannflommen kom over jorden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Read in contextGenesis 8:13
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
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