Genesis 7:13

On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah’s sons,—and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them into the ark:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

12(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth,—forty days and forty nights.)

14they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind,—and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:32And Noah was five hundred years old,—and Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18therefore will I establish my covenant with thee,—and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives, with thee.

Genesis 7:7So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him into the ark,—from before the waters of the flood,

Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noah who came forth out of the ark, were—Shem and Ham and Japheth,—now, Ham, was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 10:6And, the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan.

Judges 21:22And it shall be, when their fathers, or their brethren, come in to complain to us, that we will say unto them—As a favour to us, grant them, because we took not for each man his wife in the battle,—for, ye yourselves, gave them not unto them, so as, now, to 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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