Genesis 6:17

I will make a big flood for them. The big water will swallow them. You I will keep alive.

Nyangumarta (portions)

In The King James Version

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

In Context

18You will enter it with your wife and your children and their wives. Gather animals and birds, cause them to enter the big boat. Collect them, animals, married-pair by married-pair, you will get different kinds pair by pair to make them enter the big boat. You will keep them alive from the flood.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:4I will send rain. It will really pour down, day after day. For 40 days truly. The big flood will kill those outside the boat.”

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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