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Noah’s Favor with God

Genesis 6:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
KJV
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
WEB
But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
ASV
But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
LSV
And Noah found grace in the eyes of YHWH.
YLT
And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
DBY
But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.
DRC
But Noe found grace before the Lord.
GNV
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
JPS
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
LXXE
But Noe found grace before the Lord God.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְנֹ֕חַ מָ֥צָא חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Νῶε δὲ εὗρε χάριν ἐναντίον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ.

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👤 God👤 Noah◆ God instructs Noah to build the ark

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  • Noah and the Flood God sees violence filling the earth and decides to destroy it; righteous Noah, his household and animals survive in the ark while all life o…

Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 19:19Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
  • Hebrews 4:16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
  • Psalms 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
  • Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
  • Luke 1:30So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
  • Exodus 33:12–17Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My…
  • Proverbs 3:4Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
  • Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
  • Acts 7:46who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
  • Romans 4:4Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.
  • Proverbs 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
  • 2 Peter 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
  • Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
  • Jeremiah 31:2This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
  • Romans 11:6And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

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