Genesis 7:13
That 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
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12it rained for forty days and forty nights.
14every type of animal, and cattle, and creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and bird
Cross References
Genesis 5:32When Noah was five hundred years old, he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18“But I will make a covenant with you. Go into the ark with your sons, your wife and their wives,
Genesis 7:7he, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, entered the ark because of the waters of the flood
Genesis 9:18The sons of Noah, who left the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
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 →