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Genesis 7 Majority Standard Bible
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1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
1 Y JEHOVÁ dijo á Noé: Entra tú y toda tu casa en el arca; porque á ti he visto justo delante de mí en esta generación.
2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
2 De todo animal limpio te tomarás de siete en siete, macho y su hembra; mas de los animales que no son limpios, dos, macho y su hembra.
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
3 También de las aves de los cielos de siete en siete, macho y hembra; para guardar en vida la casta sobre la faz de toda la tierra.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
4 Porque [pasados] aún siete días, yo haré llover sobre la tierra cuarenta días y cuarenta noches; y raeré toda sustancia que hice de sobre la faz de la tierra.
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
5 E hizo Noé conforme á todo lo que le mandó Jehová.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
6 Y siendo Noé de seiscientos años, el diluvio de las aguas fué sobre la tierra.
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
7 Y vino Noé, y sus hijos, y su mujer, y las mujeres de sus hijos con él al arca, por las aguas del diluvio.
8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
8 De los animales limpios, y de los animales que no eran limpios, y de las aves, y de todo lo que anda arrastrando sobre la tierra,
9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
9 De dos en dos entraron á Noé en el arca: macho y hembra, como mandó Dios á Noé.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
10 Y sucedió que al séptimo día las aguas del diluvio fueron sobre la tierra.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
11 El año seiscientos de la vida de Noé, en el mes segundo, á diecisiete días del mes, aquel día fueron rotas todas las fuentes del grande abismo, y las cataratas de los cielos fueron abiertas;
12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
12 Y hubo lluvia sobre la tierra cuarenta días y cuarenta noches.
13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
13 En este mismo día entró Noé, y Sem y Châm y Japhet, hijos de Noé, la mujer de Noé, y las tres mujeres de sus hijos con él en el arca;
14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
14 Ellos, y todos los animales [silvestres] según sus especies, y todos los animales mansos según sus especies, y todo reptil que anda arrastrando sobre la tierra según su especie, y toda ave según su especie, todo pájaro, toda especie de volátil.
15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
15 Y vinieron á Noé al arca, de dos en dos de toda carne en que había espíritu de vida.
16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
16 Y los que vinieron, macho y hembra de toda carne vinieron, como le había mandado Dios: y Jehová le cerró [la puerta].
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
17 Y fué el diluvio cuarenta días sobre la tierra; y las aguas crecieron, y alzaron el arca, y se elevó sobre la tierra.
18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
18 Y prevalecieron las aguas, y crecieron en gran manera sobre la tierra; y andaba el arca sobre la faz de las aguas.
19 Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
19 Y las aguas prevalecieron mucho en extremo sobre la tierra; y todos los montes altos que había debajo de todos los cielos, fueron cubiertos.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
20 Quince codos en alto prevalecieron las aguas; y fueron cubiertos los montes.
21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
21 Y murió toda carne que se mueve sobre la tierra, así de aves como de ganados, y de bestias, y de todo reptil que anda arrastrando sobre la tierra, y todo hombre:
22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
22 Todo lo que tenía aliento de espíritu de vida en sus narices, de todo lo que había en la tierra, murió.
23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
23 Así fué destruída toda sustancia que vivía sobre la faz de la tierra, desde el hombre hasta la bestia, y los reptiles, y las aves del cielo; y fueron raídos de la tierra; y quedó solamente Noé, y lo que con él estaba en el arca.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
24 Y prevalecieron las aguas sobre la tierra ciento y cincuenta días.
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Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Cross references (22)
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- 1 Matthew 24:37–39; 2 Peter 2:5–9; Genesis 6:9; Hebrews 11:7; Isaiah 3:10–11
- 2 Leviticus 10:10; Genesis 8:20; Leviticus 11:1–47; Acts 10:11–15; Genesis 7:8
- 4 Genesis 6:13; Genesis 7:17; Genesis 7:12; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 6:7
- 5 Genesis 6:22; Luke 8:21; Exodus 39:32; Exodus 39:42–43; Psalm 119:6
- 6 Genesis 5:32; Genesis 8:13
- 7 Luke 17:27; Genesis 6:18; Genesis 7:1; Matthew 24:38; 2 Peter 2:5
- 9 Genesis 7:16; Genesis 2:19; Colossians 3:11; Isaiah 11:6–9; Isaiah 65:25
- 10 Genesis 6:17; Luke 17:27; Genesis 7:4; Job 22:16; Genesis 7:17–20
- 11 Genesis 8:2; Malachi 3:10; Proverbs 8:28–29; Amos 9:5–6; 2 Kings 7:19
- 12 Genesis 7:4; Matthew 4:2; Genesis 7:17; Exodus 24:18; Deuteronomy 9:18
- 13 Genesis 7:1; Genesis 6:18; Genesis 7:7–9; 1 Chronicles 1:4–28; Hebrews 11:7
- 14 Genesis 7:8–9; Genesis 7:2–3
- 15 Genesis 6:19–20; Isaiah 11:6
- 16 Luke 13:25; Matthew 25:10; Genesis 7:2–3; Psalm 91:1–10; 2 Kings 4:4–5
- 17 Genesis 7:4; Genesis 7:12
- 18 Exodus 14:28; Job 22:16; Psalm 104:26; Psalm 69:15
- 19 Psalm 104:6–9; Jeremiah 3:23; Psalm 46:2–3; 2 Peter 3:6; Job 12:15
- 20 Jeremiah 3:23; Psalm 104:6
- 21 Genesis 6:13; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:4; Romans 8:20; Genesis 6:6–7
- 22 Genesis 2:7; Genesis 6:17
- 23 2 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 3:20; Hebrews 11:7; Luke 17:26–27; 2 Peter 3:6
- 24 Genesis 8:3–4
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But why in the same place is it also written, "The waters of the flood were upon the earth in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month," if that very brief year (of which it took ten to make one of ours) consisted of thirty-six days?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Hence in the Psalms, fifteen "songs of degrees." Hence the waters of the deluge overtopped the highest mountains by fifteen cubits: and many other instances of the same nature.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)