Genesis 7:13
That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark.
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12Rain continued to fall on the earth for forty days and nights.
Cross References
Genesis 5:32Noah was 500 before he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18But 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.
Genesis 7:7Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.
Genesis 9:18Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Judges 21:22If their fathers or brothers come complaining to us, we'll tell them, ‘Please do us a favor, because we couldn't find enough wives for them in the war. And it's not as if you're guilty of breaking the oath since you didn't give them in marriage.’”
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 →