Noah and the Flood

Genesis 6

9 These are the generations of Noah. g Noah was a righteous man, h blameless in his generation. Noah i walked with God. 10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God j saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, k for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, l "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, 1 for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. 2 Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, 3 its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 Make a roof 4 for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 m For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But n I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive. 21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them." 22 o Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

Genesis 7

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, p "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that q you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all r clean animals, 5 the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs 6 of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days s I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, t and every living thing 7 that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." 5 u And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the v fountains of the great deep burst forth, and w the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They x went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in y as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.

17 The flood z continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits 8 deep. 21 And a all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land b in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only c Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 7:1
    Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
    Ezekiel 14:14
    Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.
    Ezekiel 14:20
    Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
    2 Peter 2:5
    If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
  2. Cross References
    Job 1:1
    There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
    Job 1:8
    And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?
    Luke 1:6
    And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 5:22
    Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
    Genesis 5:24
    Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
    Hebrews 11:7
    By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 14:2 - 3
    The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
    Psalms 53:2 - 3
    God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
  5. Cross References
    Job 22:15 - 17
    Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:2 - 3
    And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
    Ezekiel 7:6
    An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 7:4
    For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
    2 Peter 2:5
    If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 9:9
    Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you.
    Genesis 9:11
    I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
  9. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:7
    By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
    Exodus 40:16
    This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.
  10. Cross References
    Matthew 24:38 - 39
    For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark.
    Luke 17:26 - 27
    Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
    Hebrews 11:7
    By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
    1 Peter 3:20
    Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
    2 Peter 2:5
    If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 6:9
    These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 8:20
    Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
    Leviticus 11:1
    And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them.
  13. Cross References
    Genesis 7:12
    And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
    Genesis 7:17
    The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
    Job 37:11 - 13
    He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 6:17
    For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 6:22
    Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 8:2
    The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained.
    Proverbs 8:28
    When he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep.
    Amos 9:6
    Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth - the Lord is his name.
  17. Cross References
    Genesis 8:2
    The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained.
    2 Kings 7:19
    The captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
    Isaiah 24:18
    He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
    Malachi 3:10
    Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
    Psalms 78:23
    Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven.
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 6:20
    Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 7:2 - 3
    Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate.
  20. Cross References
    Genesis 7:4
    For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
    Genesis 7:12
    And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 7:4
    For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
    Genesis 6:13
    And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
    Genesis 6:17
    For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
    2 Peter 3:6
    And that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
  22. Cross References
    Genesis 2:7
    Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
  23. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:5
    If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
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