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Genesis 6:21

You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these animals will need, and store it in the boat.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

In Context

20Two of every kind of creature will come to you in order that by your putting them in the boat you will keep them alive. They will include two of each kind of bird and each kind of animal and each kind of creature that scurries across the ground.

22So Noah did everything that God told him to do.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:29God said to the humans, “Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat.

Job 38:41Who provides dead animals for crows, when the baby crows are calling out to me for food, when they are so weak because of their lack of food that they ◄stagger around/can hardly stand up► in their nests?”

Psalms 35:6Cause the path on which they run to be dark and slippery as your angel pursues them!

Psalms 136:25He is the one who gives food to all living creatures; his faithful love for us endures forever.

Psalms 147:9He gives to animals the food that they need, and gives food to young crows/birds when they cry out because they are hungry.

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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