Genesis 7:13
On that very day entered Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 5:32And Noah was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
Genesis 7:7And then went in Noah and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.
Genesis 9:18Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, Japheth. And Ham was father of Canaan.
Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Judges 21:22And it shall come to pass, when their fathers or their brethren come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, Grant them freely to us, for we have not taken every man his wife in the battle: because ye did not give to them according to the occasion, ye transgressed.
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 →