Genesis 7:13

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

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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

12It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

14they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:32Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 7:7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Genesis 9:18The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Judges 21:22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”

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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