Genesis 7
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 7:2-8

2You shall take 1with you of every 2clean animal 3by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; 3also of the birds of the 4sky, 5by sevens, male and female, to keep 6offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4For after 7seven more days, I will send rain on the earth 8forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land 9every living thing that I have made.” 510Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

6Now Noah was 11six hundred years old when the flood of water 12came upon the earth. 7Then 13Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. 814Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 7:2 Lit to ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 7:2 Lev 11:1-31; Deut 14:3-20 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 7:2 Lit seven seven ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 7:3 Lit heavens ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 7:3 Lit seven seven ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 7:3 Lit seed ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 7:4 Gen 7:10 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 7:4 Gen 7:12, 17 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 7:4 Gen 6:7, 13 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 7:5 Gen 6:22 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 7:6 Gen 5:32 ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 7:6 Lit was ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 7:7 Gen 6:18; 7:13; Matt 24:38f; Luke 17:27 ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 7:8 Gen 6:19, 20; 7:2, 3 ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 7

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