Genesis

Genesis 7 ©

1 Noah receiveth command from God, 7 and entereth into the ark with his family and the living creatures. 10 The beginning of the flood as soon as they are entered. 17 Its continual increase for forty days. 21 All flesh is destroyed by it. 24 Its duration.

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AND the aLORD said unto Noah, bCome thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I cseen righteous before me in this generation.

a Is. 26.20. Eze. 9.4,5. 2Pe. 2.5. 1Pe. 3.20. He. 11.7. v.13. ch. 17.10. Ac. 2.39.
b Mat. 24.38,39. Lu. 17.26,27. 2Pe. 3.6.
c ch. 6.9. Ps. 33.18. Phi. 2.15,16. Pr. 10.6,7,9; 11.4-8.
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dOf every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by 1sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

d De. 14. Le. 11. ch. 6.19-21; 8.20. Ac. 10.11,12.
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Of fowls also of the air by 2sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

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For yet seven days, and eI will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I 3destroy from off the face of the earth.

e ch. 6.17; 2.5. Am. 4.7. Job 28.25; 22.16; 36.27,28,32; 37.11,12.
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And Noah did faccording unto all that the LORD commanded him.

f Ex. 39.32,42; 40.16. Mat. 3.15. Jn. 8.28,29. Phi. 2.8. He. 5.8.
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

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¶And gNoah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

g 1Pe. 3.20. Pr. 22.3. He. 11.7. Mat. 24.38. Lu. 17.27. v.13-15. 2Pe. 2.5.
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

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There hwent in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

h ch. 2.19. Je.8.7. Is.11.6. v.16. Ac.10.11,12. Ps. 22.27-31. Ga. 3.28. Col. 3.11. Re. 7.9.
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And it came to pass 4after seven days, that ithe waters of the flood were upon the earth.

i Job 22.16. Zec. 1.5,6. ch. 6.17. v.4,17-20. Lu. 17.27. Mat. 24.38,39.
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¶In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the jfountains of the great deep broken up, and the 5windows of heaven were opened.

j Ps. 33.7; 74.15. ch. 1.7. Is. 24.19. 2Ki. 7.2,19. Mal. 3.10. Ps. 78.23. Pr. 8.28.
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And the rain was upon the earth kforty days and forty nights.

k De. 9.9,18. 1Ki. 19.8. Mat. 4.2. v.17.
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In the lselfsame 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;

l v.7-9.
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They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every 6sort.

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

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And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD mshut him in.

m Ps. 91.1-10. Jn. 10.27-29. 1Pe. 1.5. Jude 1.
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And the nflood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

n v.12.
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And othe waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

o Ps. 104.6. Job 22.16. Ex. 14.28,29.
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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

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

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And pall flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

p ch. 6.7,13,17. Lu. 17.27. Job 22.16. 2Pe. 2.5; 3.6. Ro. 5.12,14; 6.23; 8.20,22. Is. 24.1-6,19. Je. 4.22-27; 12.3,4. Ho. 4.3. Joel 1.17-20; 2.3. Zep. 1.3.
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All in whose nostrils was 7the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

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And qevery living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and rNoah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

q v.21,22.
r 2Pe. 2.5,9. Eze. 14.14. Pr. 11.4. 1Pe. 3.20. He. 11.7. Job 5.19. Ps. 91.1,9,10. Is. 26.20.
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth san hundred and fifty days.

s v.11. ch. 8.3,4. Ps. 29.10.