Genesis 7:13
On that very same day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.
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12The rain began and fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 5:32After Noah had lived five hundred years, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18But I will establish my covenant with you. You will come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 9:18The sons of Noah that came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Judges 21:22When their fathers or their brothers come to protest to us, we will say to them, 'Show us favor! Let them remain because we did not get wives for each man during the war. You are innocent, since you did not give your daughters to 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 →