Genesis 7:13

But on the day when the first rain fell, Noah and his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat that they had made.

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In The King James Version

In 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;

In Context

12The rain kept on and on falling, it didn't stop for forty days and nights.

14All the many animals and birds, those that lived in the bush and those that people looked after, they all went into the boat, big ones and little ones.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:32When Noah was 500 years old he had his family. His first son was Shem, the next was Japheth and the youngest was Ham.

Genesis 6:18I will make a covenant with you. “So you must go into the boat with your wife and your sons and their wives.

Genesis 7:7Noah went inside the boat with his wife and his sons and their wives. They went in to keep alive.

Genesis 9:18The three sons of Noah who went into the boat and came out again were called Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 10:6These were the sons of Ham. He was Japheth's younger brother. Their names were Cush, Egypt, Libya and Canaan.

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 →

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