Genesis 7:13
On the day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
12Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.
Cross References
Genesis 5:32When Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of a son whom he named Shem. Later he became the father of another son whom he named Ham, and later he became the father of another son whom he named Japheth.
Genesis 6:18But I will make an agreement with you(sg): You and your wife, your sons and their wives will enter the boat.
Genesis 7:7Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.
Genesis 9:18The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
Genesis 10:6The descendants of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
Judges 21:22If their fathers or brothers come to us and complain about what you have done, we will say to them, ‘Be kind to the men of the tribe of Benjamin. When we fought them, we did not leave any women alive to become their wives, and you did not give those young women to the men from the tribe of Benjamin. They stole them. So you will not be guilty, even though you said that you would not allow any of your daughters to marry one of them.’”
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 →