Genesis 7:13

In that very day entered Noach, and Shem, Cham, and Yapheth, sons of Noach, and the wife of Noach, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

In Context

12and the rain came down upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

14They, and every animal after his kind, and all cattle after its kind, and every, reptile which creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird, everyone that flieth:

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Cross References

Genesis 5:32And Noach was a son of five hundred years, and Noach begat Shem, Cham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18And I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

Genesis 7:7And Noach entered, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, into the ark from before the water of the deluge.

Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noach who went forth from the ark were Shem and Cham and Yapheth: and Cham is the father of Kenaan.

Genesis 10:6And the sons of Cham, Kush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Kenaan.

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 →

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