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Genesis 7

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1And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female:

3of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

5And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,

9there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.

17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

22all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

23And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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Parallel translations · Genesis 7:1

WEB · World English Bible (2000)

And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

KJV · King James Version (1611)

And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

ASV · American Standard Version (1901)

And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

BBE · Bible in Basic English (1949)

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

YLT · Young's Literal Translation (1862)

And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

DRA · Douay-Rheims (Challoner) (1752)

And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

DBY · Darby Bible (1890)

And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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Key cross-references

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — verses that illuminate Genesis 7:1.

  • 1 Peter 3:20

    that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

  • Ezekiel 9:4

    And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.

  • Proverbs 11:4

    Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.

  • Isaiah 3:10

    Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

  • Psalms 33:18

    Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;

  • Psalms 91:1

    He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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"And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;"