Genesis 7:6

And Noach was a son of six hundred years; and the deluge of waters was upon the earth.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

In Context

5And Noach did according to all that the Lord had instructed him.

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.

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Cross References

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

Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:6-11

The Deluge. ( b. c. 2349.) 5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.… Read the whole commentary →

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