Genesis 7:13
On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
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12And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 5:32And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:7And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
Judges 21:22And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:12-13
11 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 fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Here is, I. The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story. 1. It was in the 600th year of Noah's life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are… Read the whole commentary →