Genesis 6:18
“But I will make a covenant with you. Go into the ark with your sons, your wife and their wives,
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In Context
19and take with you into the ark two of every kind living thing, a male and a female,
Cross References
Genesis 7:1Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter with all your household into the ark; for I see that in this age you are living before me an upright life.
Genesis 7:13That was the day that Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark, and
Genesis 17:4“I make this solemn promise to you: you will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this appointed time next year.”
Hebrews 11:7It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows on faith.
2 Peter 2:5Nor did he spare the world of old; though he preserved Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought a flood on the godless world.
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 →