Genesis 6:21

Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

In Context

20Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.

22And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:29And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:

Job 38:41Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Psalms 35:6Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.

Psalms 147:9The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:14-22

Prediction of the Deluge. ( b. c. 2448.) 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window… Read the whole commentary →

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