Genesis 6:18

But I will keep my agreement with you. You are to go into the ark, taking with you your wife and your sons and their wives.

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In The King James Version

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

In Context

17I myself am going to flood the earth with water that will destroy everything that breathes. Every living thing everywhere on earth will die.

19Take a pair, male and female, of every kind of animal into the ark and make sure you keep them alive.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:1The Lord told Noah, “Go into the ark with all your family. I have seen how you are a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of this generation.

Genesis 7:13That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark.

Genesis 17:4“Listen! This is the agreement I'm making with you. You will be the father of many nations,

Genesis 17:21But it's with Isaac that I will keep my agreement, the son Sarah will give birth to about this time next year.”

Hebrews 11:7Noah trusted God, and was warned by him about things that had never happened before. Because Noah paid serious attention to what God said, he constructed an ark to save his family. By trusting God, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and received the reward of being set right by God.

2 Peter 2:5God didn't spare the ancient world either, but he protected Noah who told people about the God who did right. He was one of the eight who were saved when God sent a flood upon a world of evil people.

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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