Genesis 7:7

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Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

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  • Luke 17:27 : 27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
  • Gen 6:18 : 18 but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
  • Gen 7:1 : 1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
  • Matt 24:38 : 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • Gen 7:13-15 : 13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. 14 They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
  • Prov 22:3 : 3 A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

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  • Gen 7:8-19
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    89%

    8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

    9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

    10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

    12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

    14They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.

    15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

    16Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.

    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

  • Gen 8:15-19
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    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

    16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

    17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

    18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

    19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

  • Gen 6:18-19
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    18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

    19You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

  • Gen 7:1-6
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    1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

    2You must take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

    3and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.

    4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

    5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

    6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

  • Gen 9:8
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    8God said to Noah and his sons,

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

    24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

  • Luke 17:27
    75%

    27People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

  • Heb 11:7
    74%

    7By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

  • Gen 8:6-7
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    73%

    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

    7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

  • Matt 24:38
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    38For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

  • Gen 8:10
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    10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

  • Gen 8:1-2
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    1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • 1 Pet 3:20
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    20after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.