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The Great Flood

Genesis 7:6

In 11 translations

BSB
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
KJV
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
WEB
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
ASV
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
LSV
And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.
YLT
and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.
DBY
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
DRC
And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
GNV
And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.
JPS
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
LXXE
And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.

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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 בֶּן־שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וְהַמַּבּ֣וּל הָיָ֔ה מַ֖יִם עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
LXX-Br
Νῶε δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν ἑξακοσίων, καὶ ὁ κατακλυσμὸς τοῦ ὕδατος ἐγένετο ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Who and where

👤 Noah◆ Lifetime of Noah◆ The Great Flood begins◆ The Great Flood

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Part of

  • Noah and the Flood When human violence fills the earth, God grieves and resolves to judge it, but Noah finds favour and is told to build an ark for his family …

Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Genesis 8:13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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